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The Path to Recovery
Exercise specialist Karen Dyer, M.S., monitors Joe Lawrence’s blood pressure and heart rate before, during and after his rehabilitation sessions. It took only 45 minutes for leukemia patient Joe...
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Forecast Positive
The best meteorologists can seem akin to conjurers – mixing scientific information about pressure gradients and wind patterns with a dollop of gut instinct to create weather forecasts that often...
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Understanding Stem Cell Transplant
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center performs around 215 stem cell and bone marrow transplants each year, providing care leading up to the transplant, through all aspects of the procedure, and...
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Opening Pandora’s Box
It’s been two years since Joan Meredith’s stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Although she is now “100 percent donor” and her new immune system appears to be functioning well, she...
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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) – the main complication of allogeneic stem cell transplants – is the exact opposite of solid organ rejection: instead of your body rejecting the new organ, the new...
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