Bone marrow biopsies are among medicine's most painful and expensive tests. Cancer patients often undergo them. But soon, a blood test may reduce the need for this procedure. Several hundred thousand ...

During a bone marrow donation procedure, people will have a general or local anesthetic, so they will not feel any pain. After the procedure, someone may experience side effects, such as aches or ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood cells are produced. Over time, myeloma cells cause damage to bones, kidneys, ...

Nurses responsible for physician assistant (PA) duties will now be permitted to perform procedures previously considered exclusive to doctors, such as bone marrow collection, skin suturing or ...