Newham Recorder |
Donor drive to save life of Stratford firefighter’s four-year-old son
Newham Recorder Tommy’s mixed heritage makes it extremely hard to find a donor as matching stem cell tissue types are inherited. Mixed race people have less than a 20 per cent chance of finding an unrelated best possible match, while there are only 3pc of donors on … |
Temple Daily Telegram |
Woman’s sickle cell disease apparently cured by transplant
Temple Daily Telegram Deidra Flowers-Williams shown with physician and researchers from National Institutes of Health, Dr. John Tisdale, principal investigator NIH Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch; a visiting Italian physician; and Dr. Matthew Hsieh, NIH physician. |
Defiance Crescent News (subscription)Turning to family for love — and a kidneyDefiance Crescent News (subscription)By that time, their brother was dead of an unrelated cancer. … Pyle, of Norman, Okla., stayed on dialysis for years, waiting for a don…
REDLANDS: Hostage still in critical condition; community gives blood in her namePress-EnterpriseKatrina Copetillo, 28, of Highland, gives blood at Lifestream in San Bernardino, assisted by donor specialist Cecilia Ramirez, right on March 25, 2016. Cope…
KUTV 2News |
Be The Match Donors Needed: Your Bone Marrow Can Save Another’s Life
KUTV 2News It usually takes at least six months to find a matching unrelated bone marrow donor. Hilary had chemotherapy to keep her cancer at bay while she waited for a match. Hilary considers herself fortunate, because the HCI team found a donor in less than … |
New Republic |
Trump: I hope the National Enquirer, which often gets things right, is wrong about Ted Cruz, who is a liar.
New Republic Turkish citizens hope that Bharara’s indictment, while unrelated, might finally bring justice to Zarrab. … According to USA Today, donors have already given more than $1 billion to the presidential candidates and their allied super PACs. Four years … |
The Herald |
Turning to family for love – and a kidney
The Herald On average, 22 people die daily waiting for an organ transplant, according to UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, a Virginia nonprofit that promotes organ donation. An estimated 122,000 patients need organs. Of them, 100,000 are seeking kidneys. |
KUTV 2News |
Donors Needed: Your Bone Marrow Can Save Another’s Life
KUTV 2News It usually takes at least six months to find a matching unrelated bone marrow donor. Hilary had chemotherapy to keep her cancer at bay while she waited for a match. Hilary considers herself fortunate, because the HCI team found a donor in less than … |
KBOI-TV |
Donors Needed: Your Bone Marrow Can Save Another’s Life
KBOI-TV It usually takes at least six months to find a matching unrelated bone marrow donor. Hilary had chemotherapy to keep her cancer at bay while she waited for a match. Hilary considers herself fortunate, because the HCI team found a donor in less than … |
Daily Kos |
Morning Digest: A renewed scandal threatens to engulf Alabama’s Republican governor
Daily Kos Collier alleges that Bentley leased a state plane to cover things up, and says that Bentley “asked him to lie in a separate, unrelated investigation.” Bentley, for his part, says he has no plans to step down; he’s halfway through his … Maybe more … |