There is nothing much scarier than finding out your child has been diagnosed with a childhood cancer or blood disorder. Knowing your child is facing a chronic or life-threatening disease often pushes parents to great lengths to seek the best possible care. At the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, we know that a child with cancer or a blood disorder has unique needs and deserves specialized pediatric care. We’ll be by your side from diagnosis onward, to…
As a child, it left her fatigued, anemic, and sickly. Here’s how she became the fastest American woman in the 5K.
Patients with aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and other blood disorders are invited to a free seminar featuring a Vanderbilt University Medical Center clinician and other medical experts.
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Maybe you remember those dairy ads from a few years back: “Milk — it does a body good.” While there are lots of nutritional benefits in that glass of milk, it’s also true that too much of a good thing can be bad for your child
As a pediatric hematologist (that’s a doctor who treats blood disorders in kids), I see a number of children each year who develop a form of anemia from drinking…
Sickle-cell disease is an inherited blood disorder in which red blood cells are abnormally shaped like a sickle or crescent, which decreases their ability to move through blood vessels smoothly.
Traveling in certain less-developed countries can bring health complications as unwanted passengers. And sometimes, those complications don’t become clear until after you’ve come home
Jet lag
Though it’s not a serious condition, you are likely to suffer from jet lag if you’ve traveled across many time zones, and especially if you’ve traveled from the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere
Some people do well using melatonin…
Marking Brain Tumor Awareness Month, Mark Kieran of Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Center will take questions on child brain tumors.
Rolunda Jefferson and her five children, ages 4 to 17, are the embodiment of resiliency against a blood disorder that is a lifelong burden, say those who know them.
For most of my mid-30s and early 40s, it looked like I had it all together
I had a six-figure dream job that allowed me to work from home and travel the world. I had a beautiful wife and newborn son. We lived in a new house and had a couple of luxury cars in the garage. We enjoyed vacationing in Fiji, France, and Italy.
Sounds like the good life, right? But inside, it was a far different story. I was living a…
Are most clinicians aware of this side effect of oxymorphone drug abuse?
Bleeding disorders are serious conditions that affect a large number of people around the world. Hemophilia alone affects nearly 20,000 …
These days Sydney has to spend all of her time in a hospital room far from her home in Huntsville. But, Sydney being Sydney, she's named the hospital room the "Rainbow Palace" and calls her IV pole "Sparkles."
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Flintbox is a web-based application that revolutionizes how technology transfer offices market innovations and collaborate with industry.
Learn about the different ways to treat bipolar disorder, including medication types, different styles of therapy, exercise, meditation, and more.
You've probably heard about the rising importance of the microbiome -- otherwise known as your gut bacteria. Researchers have started to find interesting links between the naturally occurring bacteria that live in our guts, and things we've traditionally attributed to the brain. Things like our mood, feelings, and even thoughts. We now know, for instance, that gut bacteria can influence brain function. What has the research…
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Dexur analyzed Oct 2015 to Sep 2018 Medicare claims data for Red Blood Cell Disorders hospitalizations in New York to rank length of stay (LOS) in the hospital. Hospital rankings are also adjusted for risk based on the DRG (which groups hospitalization based on severity and risk) level quality outcomes.
Thousands of Utahns suffer from stomach and bowel conditions. Ogden Clinic’s gastroenterologists diagnose and manage all disorders of the digestive tract.