Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts has come out. Celebrating 100 days since her bone marrow transplant in her battle with myelodysplastic syndrome she wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday, “At this moment I am at peace and filled with joy and gratitude. I am grateful to God, my doctors and nurses for my restored good…
WASHINGTON – The House Energy & Commerce Committee has approved the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act, H.R.698. The bipartisan bill sponsored by Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) would lift a federal ban on the donation of HIV-positive organs to HIV-positive recipients, making it possible for researchers to study the safety of such procedures. The bill…
In what doctors are hoping will be the second time in recorded medical history that a patient is cured of both leukemia and HIV, specialists at the University of Minnesota’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital are using a highly experimental transplant to rid the young patient of his diseases. A similar procedure, which was tried once before…
