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Hendrick Health is a not-for-profit healthcare provider located in Abilene, Texas, United States. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. It provides a comprehensive range of healthcare services, including a medical center licensed for 564 beds. [1] More than 3,000 employees make up the Hendrick team. [1]
The center is one of the leading bone-marrow donor centers in the country and is the leading center for minority recruitment according to the National Marrow Donor Program. The center's marrow donor registry has a donor base of more than 100,000 donors, and through 2007, facilitated 329 matches. [6]
The Texas Children's Hospital is home to the center's Translational Research Labs and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Laboratories. The Center for Cell and Gene Therapy has the largest academic GMP facility in the world, with 8,600 square feet of Class 10,000 (ISO7) cleanroom space.
Abilene (/ ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n / AB-i-leen) is a city in Taylor and Jones counties, Texas, United States.Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census. [9] It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 176,579 as of 2020. [10]
In 1933, Abilene donated land for use by the Civilian Conservation Corps. [14] Dyess Air Force Base was established as Abilene AFB in 1942; it is named in honor of Texas native and Bataan Death March survivor Lieutenant Colonel William Dyess. [15] The Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra was created, with Jay Dietzer as the first conductor, in 1950. [5]
The American Institute for Cancer Research defines processed meat as meat that’s been cured, salted or smoked for purposes of preservation. Chemical preservatives, including nitrates and ...
Bone marrow is extracted from the donor's pelvic bones while the donor is under general or local anesthesia. PBSCs are collected from the donor's blood after five or six days of taking a drug that causes hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow to move into the circulating blood. In both cases, recovery is usually swift and donors typically have ...
The first physician to perform a successful human bone-marrow transplant on a disease other than cancer was Robert A. Good at the University of Minnesota in 1968. [74] In 1975, John Kersey, also of the University of Minnesota, performed the first successful bone-marrow transplant to cure lymphoma.