Allentown Morning Call |
Kris Toomey: It’s easy to become a bone marrow donor and save a life
Allentown Morning Call In 1979, Robert Graves, a Colorado farmer and a veterinarian, conceived the idea of connecting transplant patients with healthy volunteers when his 10-year-old daughter, Laura, received a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor. This was the … |
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Donor appeal for poorly toddler ‘may have saved other lives’
Herald Series Senior donor recruitment manager Joe Hallet said: “Around 30 per cent of patients in need of a blood stem cell donor will find a matching donor within their own family. “The remaining 70 per cent, like Ally, will need to find an unrelated donor to have … |
Witney Gazette |
Oxford University staff join bone marrow stem cell donor drive for Oxford toddler Ally Kim
Witney Gazette Senior donor recruitment manager Joe Hallet said: “Around 30 per cent of patients in need of a blood stem cell donor will find a matching donor within their own family. “The remaining 70 per cent, like Ally, will need to find an unrelated donor to have … |
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City of Hope Presents New Studies at 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting
Business Wire (press release) In the BMT CTN 0903 trial, 17 HIV-infected patients – who also had either acute leukemia, high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, Hodgkin lymphoma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma – received transplants from either matched sibling or unrelated donors. |
Tissue-matched transplants offer hope to thalassemicsThe HinduOf the 25 thalassemia major patients, who underwent stem cell transplantation (from December 2012 to November 2016) from tissue-matched unrelated donors, none rejected the donated cells. The…
The HinduUnrelated donor transplants to aid thalassemicsThe HinduOf the 25 thalassemia major patients, who underwent stem cell transplantation (from December 2012 to November 2016) from tissue-matched unrelated donors, none rejected the donated cells. …
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New law chills charitable giving by violating donors‘ privacy
Crain’s New York Business The state cannot do so here, because the law requires the disclosure of donors whose donations are used for activities entirely unrelated to lobbying. We have sued to stop this harmful law, as have the American Civil Liberties Union, New York Civil … |
The HinduNE can strengthen stem cell donor base – The Morung Express | The …Morung ExpressSay a person has a cancerous blood disorder. The person is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation; at the same time requires a stem cell (or bone marrow) …..
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Business as usual for organ traffickers
The Star Online Not realising that he was speaking to an undercover journalist, a doctor at a Rawalpindi hospital, long notorious for organ trafficking, told Dawn: “Unrelated donors become a complicated issue, there are lots of legal aspects which we have to cover … |
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines |
Bone marrow donor drive honors Iowa City boy battling lymphoma
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines The next best chance a patient has, statistically, is to find an unrelated donor that is a 100-percent match. Calder’s mother Brianna Wills described it as devastating when the family found out that the 58-year-old woman who matched with Calder was … |