27Mar/16

Red Cross blood donation opportunity coming to Derby’s Aviator Church – The Derby Informer

Red Cross blood donation opportunity coming to Derby’s Aviator Church
The Derby Informer
The American Red Cross is bringing opportunities next month, which is National Volunteer Month, to donate blood in the Derby area. The Red Cross said more than 3 million people donated blood last year. Now, they are inviting others to roll up a sleeve

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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.