Newsworks.orgWolf wants ethics pledges from transition team [updated]Newsworks.orgThe pledge also prohibits signers from using their position for personal gain, using state employees or state funds for purposes unrelated to the transition, or disclosin…
Bone marrow drive may aid local childYadkin RippleOn Saturday, members of the community are invited to register as bone marrow donors in the hopes of helping one local child who suffers from a severe type of anemia. The registration drive will take pla…
Sacramento BeeGloria Glyer: Fundraising events around the Sacramento regionSacramento BeeEvery year, more than 12,000 patients in the United States are diagnosed with blood cancers such as leukemia for which a marrow transplantation from an unrelated d…
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Toughest for Tamil Nadu patients to get donor stem cells
Times of India “Finding a matching stem cell donor for the remaining 70% is a complex process. Most seek a graft from registries of unrelated adult donors or banked umbilical cord blood units,” said Dr P Srinivasan, co-founder and chairman of Jeevan Stem Cell Bank. |
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Laguna Beach family was given the gift of life, now they’re giving it to others
OCRegister Holes are drilled into the patient’s spine to get the marrow. Donors may feel soreness in the lower back afterward. Recovery takes two to seven days. Outcomes: Survival rate for recipients was 69 percent for unrelated donors and 79 percent for related … |
www.reviewnepal.comWhy MDGs a failure ?www.reviewnepal.comOne more year to the Millennium Development Goals project deadline, a number of criticisms have heralded regarding the MDGs and the increasing likelihood that they will not be met by 2015. The g…
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Community Foundations: A century of philanthropy
New Jersey Hills “The Dixon Fund is a great example of the variety of programming that a fund can support; focus areas can be similar or entirely unrelated – whatever the donor wishes. In the area of battered women, the Community Foundation has stewarded the fund’s … |
Outcome of children with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia given autologous or …Nature.comAlthough the cumulative incidence (CI) of relapse was lower in ALLO- than in AUTO-HSCT recipients (17% vs 28%, respectively; P=0.043), the CI of TRM was 7% in bo…
Dendritic cell reconstitution is associated with relapse-free survival and …Nature.comMobilized peripheral blood stem cells compared with bone marrow as the stem cell source for unrelated donor allogeneic transplantation with reduced-intensity condit…
The impact of improved JACIE standards on the care of related BM and PBSC …Nature.comDiscrepancies exist between the care of unrelated donors (UDs) and related donors (RDs), particularly regarding medical suitability criteria, consenting procedures a…