Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Caregiving Basics

The National Family Caregivers Association's Director of Caregiver Wellness Programs, Jane Meier Hamilton, RN, MSN, has been a nurse for 40 years and family caregiver for 20 years. In a recent interview, she offered advice for family caregivers.

Is it true to say that many people don’t realize that they are caregivers?

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Because patients need help in different ways, we offer a variety of support services. From the patient/family HelpLine and support networks to live conferences, online classes and volunteer events, our aim is to positively impact as many lives as we can. Our community members contribute to that goal by sharing their own inspirational Stories of Hope, supporting each other's need to stay positive and motivated.

Types of Research Articles Part I

This article describes some of the most common types of research articles published in medical journals. Medical journals publish many types of articles not discussed here. A comprehensive list is available from the National Library of Medicine.

Research articles can be primary or secondary. A primary research article describes the design, methods, and results of a study. A secondary research article is a review of at least two primary research articles.

Primary articles

Kirk R. Schultz, MD

Institution
British Columbia Children’s Hospital
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Pediatric
About
Dr. Kirk Schultz is a Professor at the University of British Columbia, BC Children’s Hospital, and the Child and Family research Institute (CFRI) who has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. He is a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist focused on new therapies and rejection in Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT) and immune therapy of blood cancers.Dr. Schultz was the recipient of the CIHR/Wyeth Clinical Research Chair in Transplantation and is past chair of the Pediatric BMT Consortium the largest children’s BMT clinical trials group in the world. He was recently

Lukasz Gondek, M.D., Ph.D.

Institution
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
About
Dr. Gondek is a current Evans Fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Oncology, working with Dr. Amy Dezern on research related to signaling pathways in MDS stem cells. Dr. Gondek explained that the mechanism of progression in MDS is poorly understood, and he hopes through his work to clarify some of the factors that contribute to progression. He is the Principal Investigator on one pilot project currently underway within the MDS Clinical Research Consortium, working with a particular signaling pathway named the Hedgehog pathway. Dr. Gondek describes the Hedgehog (Hh) pathway

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