27Mar/16

Donor drive to save life of Stratford firefighter’s four-year-old son – Newham Recorder


Newham Recorder

Donor drive to save life of Stratford firefighter’s four-year-old son
Newham Recorder
Tommy’s mixed heritage makes it extremely hard to find a donor as matching stem cell tissue types are inherited. Mixed race people have less than a 20 per cent chance of finding an unrelated best possible match, while there are only 3pc of donors on

27Mar/16

Woman’s sickle cell disease apparently cured by transplant – Temple Daily Telegram


Temple Daily Telegram

Woman’s sickle cell disease apparently cured by transplant
Temple Daily Telegram
Deidra Flowers-Williams shown with physician and researchers from National Institutes of Health, Dr. John Tisdale, principal investigator NIH Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch; a visiting Italian physician; and Dr. Matthew Hsieh, NIH physician.