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Urgent Clarification on shingles/varicella vaccine policy for MDS patients MDS specialists have issued the following advice regarding shingles vaccine: “Current advice from the UK MDS Forum is not to […]
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This is a Factsheet for General Practitioners (GP’s) – designed to help them spot signs of POTENTIAL cases of MDS amongst their patients. MDS GP FACTSHEET MDS is a rare […]
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SURVEY time Calling all patients and their families who : – have had a bone marrow transplant in the past – are currently undergoing a bone marrow transplant – are […]
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We are in regular touch with our colleagues from the Leukaemia Foundation in Australia. They published a great newsletter recently – dedicated to MDS – and told us: “We have […]
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The Guardian newspaper is calling for cancer patients to share their experience of life after cancer. Please do consider submitting your story – as it will help raise awareness of […]
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Do you or a close relative paint or sculpt or create other forms of art? We’d like to hear from you please. A group of King’s nurses, patients and local […]
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Derriford Hospital in Plymouth has opened a brand new stem cell transplant unit. Patient and MDS blogger Richard Barker has sent us some photos and a few words. Here is […]
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Great and long awaited positive news: Lenalidomide/Revlimid – the drug developed by pharma company Celgene has finally received approval for use in Europe – for transfusion dependent MDS patients who […]
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Bone Marrow donations will be discussed tomorrow in parliament – 06/03/13 – at about 12.30pm – after Prime Minister Question Time. This is tied to an Early Day Motion tabled […]
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We have been alerted about an issue in Dublin – regarding an MDS patient employed by Dublin Airport Authority. We cannot comment – as this is going through the tribunals […]
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