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Save a Baby’s Life and Save a Second Life with Baby’s Umbilical Cord Blood …
Family Research Council (blog) The first umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant was performed in October 1988, for a 5-year-old child with Fanconi anemia, a serious condition where the bone marrow fails to make blood cells. That patient is currently alive and healthy, 25 years … |
64 persons to donate organs, body on eve of Republic DayTimes of IndiaDistrict Collector Archana Patnaik will address and motivate the donors to create awareness on organ donation, since large number of poor, needy patients in India were waiting to get…
Indian River County Community Calendar, updated Jan. 22TCPalmThe Community Concert Series: With James David Christie, organ and Daniel Rios, English horn. 4 p.m. Jan. 26. The Community Church of Vero Beach, 1901 23rd …. Donations. 772-633-0813; lapor…
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GMCH to hold 3-day meet on lifestyle diseases
Times of India “A variety of scientific feast has been organised for the delegates which includes topics like Allopathy v/s homeopathy, crusade against snakebite, stroke management, Alzheimer’s disease, recent advances in hair transplant, stem cell transplant … |
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Save a Baby’s Life, Save Two Lives with Umbilical Cord Blood
National Right to Life News The first umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant was performed in October 1988, for a 5-year-old child with Fanconi anemia, a serious condition where the bone marrow fails to make blood cells. That patient is currently alive and healthy, 25 years … |
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US doctor: Social media can promote organ donation
Times of India The doctor, who was in the city to raise awareness about organ donation, said though India, especially Tamil Nadu, was making rapid progress in organ donation, there was still a long way to go. “The target should be the youth as they are the ones who … |
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Increasing African American Bone Marrow Donation & Continuing the Efforts of a …
90.5 WESA Nadya Dutchin, National Account Executive for Be the Match, a global leader in bone marrow transplantation, says many potential donors are often uneasy about joining. “Most people are very, very afraid of the idea of bone marrow donation. Just the mere … |
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NHL team’s special tribute honors memory of Mandi Schwartz
FOXSports.com Her best chance of survival was a stem-cell transplant. Failing with that, doctors hoped to find suitable stem cells from umbilical-cord donors. Mandi’s German/Russian/Ukrainian bloodline made a match difficult. The search became a crusade at Yale and … |
Cadaveric transplantation: Need of the hourGreaterKashmir.comMany of these patients especially with kidney failure are kept alive on dialysis; with medical advances it is possible to transplant organs and tissues to circumvent a chronically failed kidn…
Assam fairs poorly in eye donationNagaland PostThe Eye Bank Association of India (EBAI) data revealed that while the rest of the country is witnessing a positive trend in corneal donation, Assam and a few other states have been lagging behind. There ar…