Egg Donation: Reporting Discrepancies & Medical Issues
Huffington Post
Health concerns can also turn up weeks, months or even years after the donation. By that point, it’s not clear if they’re related, so some donors don’t mention these issues to their fertility doctors. Without deliberate follow-up, doctors may not be …

It’s Time for Blacks to Get Serious About Bone Marrow Donation
EBONY.com
For many people suffering from blood-related illnesses, a bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplant represents the best chance for survival. According to Delete Blood Cancer | DKMS, 30 percent of patients are able to find a matching donor …

A look inside the Czech Republic’s booming fertility holiday industry
The Conversation US
For women who suffer age-related infertility, they may need IVF using an egg donor. However, costs in the United States for IVF can quickly become prohibitively expensive, running in the tens of thousands of dollars. After looking further into IVF …

Spring break travel, Zika virus impacting eligible blood donors in AZ
Tucson News Now
She said regular donors are traveling to places like Mexico for spring break so they can’t donate for a month. And Puerto Rico has stopped collecting blood altogether because of the Zika Virus. [RELATED: Agencies restrict blood donations, fear Zika …

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Food Bank short on food, monetary donations
Napa Valley Register
Donations of both food and money at Community Action Napa Valley’s Food Bank fell dramatically in 2015, causing agency employees to scramble to help Napa’s neediest. “For the … The 2014 total was not due to earthquake-related giving, said King. In …

US Hospitals Prepare for Penis Transplants
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
However, the donor penis was removed after 14 days because the patient and his wife could not psychologically accept the penis, in part due to significant posttransplantation swelling (Hu W et al. … For a non–life-saving transplant, clinicians are in …

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Marco Rubio tells donors: ‘We had a great season’
Washington Post
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), an avid basketball and football fan, used a sports metaphor Wednesday to describe the arc of his presidential campaign. “We had a great season but we didn’t get to the Super Bowl and we didn’t win the Super Bowl,” the senator …

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Verastem to Present Data Supporting FAK/PYK2 Inhibition at the 2016 American Academy of Cancer Research Annual …
Business Wire (press release)
“The data that will be presented at the upcoming 2016 AACR Annual Meeting continue to build on the premise that focal adhesion kinase (FAK), and the related proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2 (PYK2), inhibition enhances the efficacy of standard of care …

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InSphero Launches Multi-donor Human Liver Microtissues.
The Scientist
InSphero 3D InSight™ Human Liver Microtissues provide a more sensitive preclinical in vitro model for DILI detection and prediction, with the specificity to accurately distinguish between known hepatotoxicants and structurally-related non-toxic analogs.