17Jul/18

Parents of ‘brightest star’ little boy appeal for BAME organ donors – ITV News


ITV News

Parents of ‘brightest star’ little boy appeal for BAME organ donors
ITV News
Organ and tissue types need to be closely matched between organ donors and recipients, and blood and tissue types differ across ethnic groups. The report highlights how only 7% of deceased organ donors in the UK are from minority ethnic groups. And the …
Organ donation: we can break taboos among British BAME …The Guardian
Croydon parents explain why they donated their son’s organs when he died aged just threeCroydon Advertiser
Parents of ‘brightest star’ little boy appeal for BAME organ donors …Jersey Evening Post

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17Jul/18

Andrew Cuomo’s Friends Are Suddenly Giving Him Lots of Small Donations – Slate Magazine


Slate Magazine

Andrew Cuomo’s Friends Are Suddenly Giving Him Lots of Small Donations
Slate Magazine
Campaign finance reports released on Tuesday showed that a number of people related to Cuomo’s staff—including some with considerable means—cut small-dollar checks to the governor. One individual made 69 individual donations in $1, $3 and $5

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17Jul/18

Blood donations decrease in summer, Red Cross says – Weatherford Democrat


Weatherford Democrat

Blood donations decrease in summer, Red Cross says
Weatherford Democrat
Summer marks the decline in blood donations, and sometimes can lead to shortages — especially type O. The American Red Cross issued an emergency call for blood donations from eligible donors earlier this month because of such a shortage. This decline …
Blood supply dwindles after Independence DayChetekalert

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17Jul/18

Organ donor, Women With Will founder now facing failure of remaining kidney – The Herald-Times

The Herald-TimesOrgan donor, Women With Will founder now facing failure of remaining kidneyThe Herald-TimesWhen Emily Ward donated her kidney to her father in 2004, she was told it was rare for a donor to need a new kidney as well later in life. So it …

17Jul/18

Gene editing may enhance CAR T-cell therapy for hematologic malignancies – Healio

Gene editing may enhance CAR T-cell therapy for hematologic malignancies
Healio
… responsible for allogeneic or ‘non-self’ recognition (T-cell receptor/CD3), this would allow us to use ‘off-the-shelf’ third-party T cells from normal donors, thus eliminating any chance of malignant cell contamination and, when infused into an

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