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28Sep/18

First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related. – New York Times


New York Times

First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.
New York Times
In the early 2000s, I searched online for a way to find my offspring and discovered the Donor Sibling Registry but didn’t see any leads there and never got around to checking back. (I had looked way too early: My progeny began to use the site to find

28Sep/18

First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related. – New York Times


New York Times

First I Met My Children, Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.
New York Times
In the early 2000s, I searched online for a way to find my offspring and discovered the Donor Sibling Registry but didn’t see any leads there and never got around to checking back. (I had looked way too early: My progeny began to use the site to find

28Sep/18

You could be a bone marrow donor: Here’s what you need to know – The Coloradoan


The Coloradoan

You could be a bone marrow donor: Here’s what you need to know
The Coloradoan
His journey was meant to honor the Graves family that runs Morning Fresh — in 1979 the late Laura Graves became the first person to have bone marrow transplant from a non-related donor. Her late father, Bob Graves, started the organization that became …

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27Sep/18

Anonymous donors put up $11000 in reward money after shooting of man who founded St. Louis nonprofit – STLtoday.com


STLtoday.com

Anonymous donors put up $11000 in reward money after shooting of man who founded St. Louis nonprofit
STLtoday.com
He told police he was shot while someone tried to carjack his 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Because he was so badly injured, he couldn’t immediately give officers more information. RELATED: See crime reports from the Wydown Skinker neighborhood …

27Sep/18

Sunday Conversation: Linda D’Aquila builds support for life-saving organ donations – TBO.com


TBO.com

Sunday Conversation: Linda D’Aquila builds support for life-saving organ donations
TBO.com
Sunday Conversation: Linda D’Aquila builds support for life-saving organ donations. Linda DAquila helped raise thousands of … D’Aquila worked hand-in-hand with the National Organization for Transplant Enlightenment at awareness events, monthly

27Sep/18

How one Fort Collins girl gave hope to 86000 people with blood cancers – The Coloradoan


The Coloradoan

How one Fort Collins girl gave hope to 86000 people with blood cancers
The Coloradoan
As hope faded, Dr. John Hansen stopped Bob in the hallway of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center with the radical proposition of testing out a donor who wasn’t related. Genetics were an important part of the procedure’s success, but in theory, the transplant …

27Sep/18

Loudoun County School Board recognizes donor contributions to Academies of Loudoun, STEM education – Loudoun Times-Mirror


Loudoun Times-Mirror

Loudoun County School Board recognizes donor contributions to Academies of Loudoun, STEM education
Loudoun Times-Mirror
The Academies’ common area outside of the Student Service Suite will be named after the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for its pledged gift of $300,000 to support the EDGE Academy, a hands-on, STEM-related after-school program that serves potential future …

26Sep/18

NIH Seeks ‘Self” Cure in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease – AJMC.com Managed Markets Network

NIH Seeks ‘Self” Cure in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease
AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
When a patient with SCD receives the bone marrow of another person, there is the risk that the immune system of the patient with sickle cell rejects and attacks the donor cells. The chances of either instance even in matched-related transplants can be

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