NewbritainheraldMarrow drive at Berlin library May 16NewbritainheraldBe The Match is a movement that engages a growing community of people inspired to help patients who need a marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant from an unrelated donor. The Natio…
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Part of Indian Point power plant still shut down after fire
kwwl.com … easier since Texas’ new lieutenant governor set up regular conference calls for select business…More >>. Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is among dozens of business leaders and wealthy donors who have a new role in Texas government: advising the … Transformer fire shuts down part of Indian Point power plantNBC 29 News |
NBC 29 NewsTransformer fire shuts down part of Indian Point power plantNBC 29 NewsUnit 3 had been shut down Thursday morning for an unrelated issue, a water leak on the non-nuclear side of the plant. It was repaired and there was no radioactive release…
Post-BulletinSt. Peter woman receives gift of a lifetimePost-BulletinKathy Allen of St. Peter received a kidney transplant in March through an exchange program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Greg Enz (right), a close friend of her son, Ethan Allen (l…
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Chandler 12-year-old diagnosed with Diamond Blackfan Anemia still waiting for …
ABC15 Arizona Now 12 years old, Mia has received 115 transfusions, and will continue to have one every month, until a matching donor is found. Like 70 percent of marrow transplant patients who don’t have a match in their family, the McPolands have turned to the Be … |
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Stem Cell Study Evaluates ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Heart Failure Treatment
UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences News One approach would make it potentially feasible to use stem cells from an unrelated donor, offering significant advantages. “Demonstrating the feasibility of using donor cells would provide an off-the-shelf approach to cardiac stem cell therapy,” Canty … |
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Five years ago I saved a life
The Daily Telegraph (blog) You can sign up to be a MUD — matched unrelated donor — at the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry. Luckily, my stem cells matched Jason’s. I was ecstatic. Instead of being a helpless spectator in my brother’s fight for life, I could actually do … |
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Hoping to highlight good works, Clintons find controversy instead
Santa Fe New Mexican A liberal human rights organization and several Republican lawmakers, for instance, are criticizing the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation for accepting donations from a Moroccan government-owned mining company, whose seven-figure sponsorship … Murdoch Media Reach For ’90s Playbook: Criminalize The ClintonsMedia Matters for America (blog) |
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JDRF One Walk, Q-C raises $232500 for type 1 diabetes research
Quad-Cities Online “JDRF has a strategic plan to put an end to this terrible disease, and it is thanks to the dedication of our donors, volunteers, and participants throughout this community and others that we will reach our vision of a world without type 1 diabetes … |
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Mitochondrial “Collateral Damage” Thanks to Big Pharma
Center for Research on Globalization “Mitochondrial damage is now understood to play a role in a wide range of seemingly unrelated disorders such as schizophrenia, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. … Interestingly, UMDF has a … |