Canadian scientists are investigating a novel way of treating a deadly form of leukemia: By targeting the stem cells that allow the cancer to return after chemotherapy has resulted in apparent remission. Using an experimental drug, researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto were able to cure some mice transplanted with the human form of [...]

Last February, doctors diagnosed Chuck and Jacqueline Roberts’ young daughter, Victoria, with a rare and life-threatening bone marrow disease, aplastic anemia. Since then, the Robertses say, they have heard of five other cases in Columbia County, where they live, or across the river in Washington’s Cowlitz County. To the couple, six cases in counties with [...]