ASH News Daily is an annual meeting publication that is available to attendees on-site each day. Four separate issues of ASH News Daily, covering the four days of the ASH annual meeting, feature informative articles on a wide range of Education Program sessions, Scientific Committee sessions, and abstract presentations written by the Editor-in-Chief and the ASH News Daily author team.

2004 Editor-in-Chief:
Peter Emanuel, M.D.
University of Alabama Wallace Tumor Institute

2004 ASH News Daily Authors:
David Ginsburg, M.D.
Lawrence Tim Goodnough, M.D.
Jill Johnson, M.D.
Brad Kahl, M.D.
Edward F. Srour, Ph.D.

View the 2003 ASH News Daily Online Scientific Summaries

The 2004 ASH News Daily online scientific summaries are supported by an educational grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology.

Issue I - Saturday, December 4, 2004

• Acute Leukemia Strategies in Kids and Big People
• ADAMTS13: The Key to Keeping VWF Trim
• Can We Chill Platelets As Well As Wine?
• Fixing Thalassemia - Magic or Reality
• Iron Metabolism and Iron Chelators
• It's a Great Day for Learning About CLL
• Modulating GVHD with Regulatory T Cells (Tregs)
• Myeloid Biology: Is There a Fork in the Road?
• Pipes Implicated in Clogged Drains
• SNPs and miRNA, Two Acronyms Used More and More in Hematology

Issue II - Sunday, December 5, 2004

• A New Therapeutic Target for Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma?
• Cell Cycle Regulation, Apoptosis, Survival, and Homing of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
• Gleevec Lights Its Fifth Birthday Candle
• Mad Cows and Englishmen
• Modified Platelets as Delivery Agents
• Myelodysplasia Real Changes...Finally
• Penetrating Blood Clots - Enlightening Investigations
• SRC Inhibitors are SupeRCharged
• Thrombotic Storms - Are You Prepared?
• What's New for Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation?

Issue III - Monday, December 6, 2004

• Anemia in the Elderly
• Another Reason Not to "Supersize" It
• Blood Doping: From Iron to Gold?
• Carving a NOTCH in Pediatric T-ALL Pathogenesis
• Holding the Platelet Trigger
• Multiple Strategies for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma
• New Focus on Myeloproliferative Disorders - Top to Bottom
• NHLBI Stops the STOP II Trial Early
• The E. Donnall Thomas Lecture-a Chronicle of Growth Factor Discovery
• Unveiling the Pathophysiological Mysteries of Marrow Failure

Issue IV - Tuesday, December 9, 2003

• Genes Causing Mischief in the Marrow
• Hodgkin Lymphoma: Doing More with Less
• Interplay Between Myeloma Cells and the Microenvironment
• Silent Stroke a Major Problem in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
• Stem Cells in the Spotlight Again
• Stopping the Bleeding: Hemophilia and VWD
• The Hemostasis-Inflammation Connection: The Bugs Already Know About It
• Unstable Genes, DNA, and the Maytag Repair Man