BBC News |
First UK womb transplant ‘by end of 2018’
BBC News Womb Transplant UK says it has enough funds to pay for three transplants but will need hundreds of thousands of pounds more to complete a total of 15 transplants – five of these with living, related donors. Around 6,000 women in the UK were born … |
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United Blood Services plans 10th Annual “Boogie on the Bayou”
WAFB.com Donors can fill out the interview portion of their donation online, in the privacy of their home or office. Click on the “Health History Questionnaire.” Make sure to print your “Fast track donation ticket” and bring it with you to your donation … |
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Hearing set Thursday for Greitens’ attorney to argue against turning over documents from secretive group
Missourinet.com Greiten’s attorneys negotiated a deal with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office for it to drop a felony computer tampering charge against Greitens related to his acquisition of the donor list in exchange for his resignation. During the House … |
South West Londoner |
Blood cancer: One Londoner’s fight to beat the condition
South West Londoner West Londoner Tim Potter, who was adopted as a child, is wholly dependent upon finding a non-related donor and is aided in his search by the blood cancer charity DKMS. Mr Potter, 53, has endured multiple rounds of chemotherapy since he was diagnosed … |
CTV News |
Edmonton man in desperate search for Asian stem cell donor
CTV News Nguyen’s family has now organized a widespread stem cell donor drive in hopes of finding a match. They held a swabbing event in Edmonton earlier this month that resulted in about 800 new donor sign-ups, and a similar drive in Calgary over the weekend, … |
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Editorial: Judge’s UNM Foundation records ruling correct call
Albuquerque Journal The lawsuit was filed by independent journalist Daniel Libit over the foundation’s failure to produce documents related to WisePies Pizza & Salad’s now-former naming rights agreement for the Pit. The foundation, UNM’s fundraising arm, argued … |
CTV News |
Edmonton family holds swab event in Calgary to find stem cell donor
CTV News Back in January, Bille Nguyen was diagnosed with a rare type of blood cancer that specialists say could be helped through a special treatment using a stem cell donation. The problem is that because Nguyen is Asian, there aren’t enough donors in the … |
Plumas County NewspapersCommon Good Foundation accepting grant applicationsPlumas County NewspapersBeyond simply providing tourist information to out-of-county visitors, the Lost Sierra Chamber of Commerce used a recent grant from The Common Good Commu…
Globalnews.ca |
Canadian parents want to do more for the surrogates carrying their babies
Globalnews.ca … and egg) donation is set out by the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which passed in 2004. It allows intended parents — the people the surrogate carries the baby for — to reimburse receipted pregnancy-related expenditures. But it’s currently … |
Ottawa Citizen |
Baylis: Paying for egg donations enters dicey territory
Ottawa Citizen The legislation governing assisted human reproduction prohibits payment for eggs, but permits payment for expenses related to egg donation. The legal wrinkle is that such reimbursements must be made in accordance with regulations that don’t yet exist. |