Startup Spotlight: ActiveGiver wants to ‘level the playing field’ for campaign contributions
GeekWire
That’s why ActiveGiver co-founders Saar Safra and Scott Case developed a platform to more efficiently collect contributions from small-scale campaign donors. The platform allows donors to search based on issues they care about, then donate to …

Conexio finds global market a perfect match
Business News
Identifying a perfect match via tissue typing has been evolving since the 1960s, and recent research suggests that the most suitable donor for a patient with leukaemia is an unrelated person. Dr Sayer said that, prior to Conexio’s developments, there …

Summer Blood Donations Needed: Where To Give Around Berkeley
Patch.com
Blood donations often decline in the summer months, especially around summer holidays when donors are less available to give. The need for blood doesn’t decrease though – every two seconds, someone in the U.S. requires blood or platelets. In fact, a …
Urgent need for blood donors in Central New York and beyond as summer travel ramps up14850
Cedar Fair theme parks and the American Red Cross partner to offer blood donors thrilling summer funKokomo Herald (press release)
Congregation Or Shalom Blood DriveOrange Town News (press release)
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This Australian Woman Is Going Viral on Reddit for Donating a Kidney to Her Boyfriend
Mic
Living donor kidneys, aka organs donated by someone who’s still alive rather than from an anonymous deceased donor, last longer and provide better health benefits to the recipient. According to the National Kidney Registry, around 5,000 Americans …

Hundreds of Clinics Offer Often Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
NBCNews.com
Cancer patients are sometimes treated with bone marrow stem cell transplants, either from other donors —allogeneic stem cells — or from the patient’s own body in what’s called an autologous transplant. … Related: A Costly, Unproven Stem Cell Therapy.

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See where your flood donations are going
WHSV
Folks like Lina Ervin want donors to know, “There are so many who are worse off than we are. We have our lives. A lot of them…don’t.” Right now, there is a T-shirt fund ongoing to help those trying to recover. Find a link to help in the related links …

Clinton Donor Promised To Make Her ‘Look Good’ If Appointed To National Security Board
Town Hall
According to the website, ISAB offers the State Department “independent insight and advice on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, international security, and related aspects of public diplomacy.” This is the board Clinton seems …

The Latest: Utah Sen. Lee won’t endorse Trump
Daily Journal Online
While helpful for the campaign’s bottom line, these fundraisers open the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to criticism she’s beholden to big donors. Both Clinton and Republican Donald Trump can solicit checks of $350,000 or more from a …

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Kidney racket: Court denies bail to organ recipient
Times of India
“After careful and studied perusal of available material, it is apparent that accused (Ashutosh) voluntarily and knowingly participated in the process of transplantation of a kidney which was not donated by his real uncle but by a donor unrelated to …

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