Servando’s Story

Servando, a 37-year-old chef, from Tulsa, OK, has Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, or CML. His treatment has been more complicated than for most patients with this potentially fatal blood cancer. So as a last resort, he came to the NIH with the hope for a cure. In CML, the bone marrow makes too many white blood […]

July 2017 Newsletter

– What is First in Human? Watch Discovery’s First in Human Film Series about the NIH on August 10th
– Giving Back to Science… a Leukemia Research Trial
– Take Me Out to the Ballgame!
– Save the Date for the Annual Friends’ Night Out

June 2017 Newsletter

In Honor of Fathers Daddy, Are You Going to Die? Damion B. lights up when he talks about his daily morning video chat with his eight- and nine-year-old daughters. DeJanae and Destiny ask him if they can talk to his nurse. They giggle and say hi. Then they pause and quietly ask, “Daddy are you […]

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