Cancer Spreads from Organ Donor to 4 People in ‘Extraordinary’ Case
Live Science
She had no known medical conditions that would have precluded organ donation, and multiple tests showed no signs of cancer. Doctors transplanted her kidneys, lungs, liver and heart into the donor recipients. (The heart-transplant patient died of …
Transmission of breast cancer by a single multiorgan donor to 4 transplant recipients – Wiley Online LibraryWiley Online Library

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Striking a Match for Stem Cell Transplants
Curetoday.com
… autologous transplant, it’s easier and quicker than an allogenic (transplant),” says Auayporn Nademanee, M.D., Jan & Mace Siegel Professor in Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and director of the Matched Unrelated Donor Program at …

Gatesville mosque helping to boost bone marrow donor campaign
Independent Online
SABMR medical director Charlotte Ingram said the main objective of donor day was to thank all unrelated donors, family donors, cord blood donors, donors who had already donated, and donors who were on the global registry waiting to donate. “Every year …

Gatesville mosque helping to boost bone marrow donor campaign
Independent Online
SABMR medical director Charlotte Ingram said the main objective of donor day was to thank all unrelated donors, family donors, cord blood donors, donors who had already donated, and donors who were on the global registry waiting to donate. “Every year …

The Growth in Total Household Giving Is Camouflaging a Decline in Giving by Small and Medium Donors: What Can …
Nonprofit Quarterly
Research on giving in the United States has now produced definitive empirical evidence to show a decline in the participation and amounts donated by “small” and “medium” (actually, median) donors and an increasing reliance on “large” donors. That lead …

How Sue’s donor legacy is still saving lives today
Jewish Chronicle
But despite the advances, unrelated stem cell donors (as they are now more commonly called) are still needed for about 1,000 Jewish people every year. For Ashkenazim there’s a 25 per cent chance of them not finding one, Sephardim 50 per cent and, …

Why this UM regent just returned thousands in campaign donations
Detroit Free Press
A review of state records shows that two members of the university’s elected Board of Regents accepted in total nearly $30,000 in campaign contributions from donors associated with funds receiving U-M investments. In addition, a family who helps guide …

Crissman Elementary students walk to cure Type 1 diabetes
The Macomb Daily
This year, Team 3D, now under the moniker Pump It Up, has the support of Dan’s employer, Instron, which has promised to match donations for Pump It Up’s JDRF One Walk total. “We are blessed to be surrounded by people who are willing to help,” Kelli …

Man accused of stealing from homeless veteran’s GoFundMe account arrested on unrelated charges
9Honey
After an amount of $546,000 (US$400K) was raised by 14,000 donors, the money was deposited into the personal bank accounts of McClure and her D’Amico. But it was recently revealed he did not have access to the money and accused McClure and …
Husband accused of stealing £310k he helped raise for homeless war vet Johnny Bobbitt is ARRESTED on unrelated …The Sun
Man accused of stealing homeless man’s $400000 GoFundMe donations with his girlfriend, arrested on other chargesNew Zealand Herald
Man Involved in Missing GoFundMe Money Scandal Arrested for …Brinkwire (press release)

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