A nurse was diagnosed with aggressive cancer after a routine pregnancy test. Amy and her husband, Greg De Silva, both 39, ...

The VA’s list of presumptive conditions for Agent Orange exposure is a fairly long one, but many Vietnam War veterans will tell you it’s far from complete, even after the PACT Act added more. It ...

More than 50 years after Agent Orange was used in Vietnam, a new national study published in Blood Advances highlights the genetic changes that link exposure to Agent Orange to myelodysplastic ...

Researchers have discovered that some cells enter a dormant state and create a defense against cancer – a breakthrough that could lead to early treatment. Researchers from the Department of Forensic ...

A father is appealing for donors as his teenage son faces a life-threatening blood disorder and needs a stem cell transplant ...

More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat ...

A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

Researchers from UC Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed and studied a new material — engineered bone marrow, or eBM. Engineered bone marrow offers a better way to study ...

MDS is not designated as a presumptive condition, which means that veterans must provide medical evidence to show a direct service connection.