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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 23, 2015
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ORLANDO, FL—In a small study, the cholesterol-lowering medication simvastatin reduced the frequency of vaso-occlusive pai...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 17, 2015
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ORLANDO, FL—In a large, registry-based study, transplants from human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-identical sibling donors proved...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 15, 2015
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ORLANDO, FL—Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells can have “powerful activity” in patients with multiple myeloma (MM), acco...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 14, 2015
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ORLANDO, FL—Hydroxyurea (HU) is noninferior to chronic blood transfusions for reducing the risk of stroke in children with si...
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- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 13, 2015
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ORLANDO, FL—Idelalisib, the first-in-class PI3Kδ inhibitor, combined with bendamustine and rituximab (BR) for relapsed/refrac...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 11, 2015
Photo courtesy of ASH ORLANDO, FL—A 3-drug regimen is likely not worth pursuing as a first-line treatment option for follicular lymphoma (FL), acco...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 10, 2015
ASH Annual Meeting
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ORLANDO, FL—A monoclonal antibody (mAb) targeting interferon-gamma (IFNγ) has shown promise for treating ...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 10, 2015
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ORLANDO, FL—The source of factor VIII (FVIII) replacement therapy affects the risk of inhibitor development in previously unt...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 9, 2015
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ORLANDO, FL—Allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells directed against CD19 can have “significant” activity against ...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: December 8, 2015
Annual Meeting
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ORLANDO, FL—The BTK inhibitor ibrutinib should be considered the treatment of choice for patients with relaps...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: November 11, 2015
ANAHEIM, CA—The timing of gamma irradiation influences in vitro characteristics of red cell concentrates (RCCs), according to a new study.
The rese...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: November 6, 2015
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ANAHEIM, CA—A newer, more streamlined apheresis system yields more CD34+ cells from stem cell transplant donors than a previous sys...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: November 4, 2015
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ANAHEIM—A survey of UK blood donors suggests that as many as 30% of donors who are men who have sex with men (MSM) may not ...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: November 3, 2015
ANAHEIM, CA—Data from the STRIDE study have revealed interventions that can mitigate iron deficiency in repeat blood donors.
The study showed that ...
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- Author:
- Jen Smith
Publish date: November 2, 2015
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