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  1. Health & Medicine

    Thalidomide-like drug treats blood disorder

    A novel drug appears to help people with myelodysplasia, a persistent condition that leaves them short of crucial blood components.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Novel drug fights leukemia

    An experimental drug helps a small but significant fraction of people with acute myeloid leukemia and causes minimal side effects.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Select immune cells help marrow grafts

    By excising certain immune cells from donor bone marrow, physicians have devised a new way of performing marrow transplants.

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  4. Brain gene is tied to obesity

    A gene involved in brain chemistry influences whether a person is thin or fat.