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Stem cells derived from bone marrow may serve as a novel therapeutic option to treat a disease called epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a disorder characterized by extraordinarily fragile skin, according to a study prepublished online in Blood, the official journal of the American Society of Hematology.

New research shows that two-thirds of all migraine sufferers have a hole in their heart or a right-to-left shunt. This leads to an abnormal blood flow that bypasses the filtration process within the lungs and may contribute significantly to headache pain. These results were posted early on the 15th of October at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics scientific symposium in Washington, D.C. About 13 million Americans over the age of 12 suffer from migraines as defined by the International Headache Society. These findings dispute the recent 2007 findings that migraine sufferers may be the victims of brain damage.