21Mar/16

Blood donors to receive free movie ticket Tuesday and Wednesday – Cookeville Herald Citizen

Blood donors to receive free movie ticket Tuesday and Wednesday
Cookeville Herald Citizen
CHATTANOOGA — In an effort to increase blood donations, non-profit regional blood center Blood Assurance is partnering with Fandango to give away movie tickets Tuesday and Wednesday. “Due to people traveling for spring break, our donations have …

21Mar/16

PATH400: City donor-naming limit is ‘crippling’ fundraising – Atlanta Intown


Atlanta Intown

PATH400: City donor-naming limit is ‘crippling’ fundraising
Atlanta Intown
“It’s crippling us,” she said, because donor recognition plaques are a major fundraising tool for the money needed to build out the path and related park system. Starling said in a later interview that the city’s donor recognition policy appears to be

21Mar/16

One-in-three in Gwent on organ donor register – but Monmouthshire leads the way – South Wales Argus


South Wales Argus

One-in-three in Gwent on organ donor register – but Monmouthshire leads the way
South Wales Argus
The organ donor register continues to have a vital role to play UK-wide in identifying potential donors, and in Wales – where a new opt-out system of organ donation was introduced late last year – it is an important source of confirmation of a person’s

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21Mar/16

Another vote to allow young drivers to affirm organ donation wishes – Albany Times Union (blog)

Another vote to allow young drivers to affirm organ donation wishes
Albany Times Union (blog)
The state Senate’s active list for Monday includes a bill sponsored by Kemp Hannon, R-Long Island, that would allow New Yorkers as young as 16 to state their desire to become eye, organ or tissue donors. Parents of 16- and 17-year-olds, however, would …

21Mar/16

2410 people waiting for organ donation – Times of India

2410 people waiting for organ donationTimes of IndiaBENGALURU: The state government has said as many as 2,410 people are waiting for organ donation as per the list provided by the Zonal Co-Ordination Committee of Karnataka (ZCCK) for organ transplants….

21Mar/16

The patient’s CMV serological status affects clinical outcome after T-cell replete haplo-HSCT and post-transplant … – Nature.com

The patient’s CMV serological status affects clinical outcome after T-cell replete haplo-HSCT and post-transplant
Nature.com
The issue is noteworthy since the reproducibility, the acceptable toxicity and the ease of finding a donor within the appropriate timing is conducting to an increasing use of haplo-HSCT with PT-Cy overall, even challenging the use of matched unrelated

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21Mar/16

Late effects in patients with Fanconi anemia following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from … – Nature.com

Late effects in patients with Fanconi anemia following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from
Nature.com
Related donors (N=8) were HLA mismatched at one antigen (N=2; A) or greater than one antigen (N=6; A,C – A,C – Dr,DQ – Dr,DQ – B,DR,DQ – B,C,DR,DQ). Source of hematopoietic stem cells included bone marrow (N=4) or peripheral blood (N=18).

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