Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)

Types of Research Articles Part I

This article describes some of the most common types of research articles published in medical journals. Medical journals publish many types of articles not discussed here. A comprehensive list is available from the National Library of Medicine.

Research articles can be primary or secondary. A primary research article describes the design, methods, and results of a study. A secondary research article is a review of at least two primary research articles.

Primary articles

Kirk R. Schultz, MD

Institution
British Columbia Children’s Hospital
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Pediatric
About
Dr. Kirk Schultz is a Professor at the University of British Columbia, BC Children’s Hospital, and the Child and Family research Institute (CFRI) who has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. He is a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist focused on new therapies and rejection in Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT) and immune therapy of blood cancers.Dr. Schultz was the recipient of the CIHR/Wyeth Clinical Research Chair in Transplantation and is past chair of the Pediatric BMT Consortium the largest children’s BMT clinical trials group in the world. He was recently

Daria Babushok, MD, PhD

Institution
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Aplastic Anemia
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Daria Babushok’s research is focused on understanding the genetic changes that can arise in the bone marrow of patients with aplastic anemia, and on how they affect the patients’ prognosis and treatment outcomes. Dr. Babushok has completed a clinical hematology-oncology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a junior physician-scientist investigator at the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Monica Bessler. In a study recently published in the journal of Cancer Genetics and conducted with the support of the AA&MDS International

Blood Transfusion Safety and Risks

Negative side effects of blood transfusion therapy are uncommon. Blood banks, hospitals, and health-care providers take many precautions to minimize risks before each blood transfusion.

Blood banks test each unit of blood to find out its ABO type and Rh status. In the United States, after a hospital laboratory receives a blood unit from the blood bank, the laboratory tests the unit again.

 

Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD

Institution
Department of Leukemia at MD Anderson Cancer Center
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
About
My main academic and clinical objective is to, if not cure, at least contribute to significantly better outcomes for patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS). I am the Chief of the Section of MDS in the Department of Leukemia at MD Anderson Cancer Center. I have built this into the largest clinical program of its class. One hundred percent of my research and clinical effort is devoted to patients with MDS.
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