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No Need to Wait for the Perfect Match—Cord Blood Is Saving Time and Lives
OncLive At Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), outcomes with cord blood are equivalent to those with matched unrelated donors. If a patient does not have a matched donor, we don’t hesitate to go straight to cord blood. We don’t wait to find that perfect match … |
Bone marrow donor and recipient, both Fil-Ams, hail life – Inquirer.net
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Bone marrow donor and recipient, both Fil-Ams, hail life
Inquirer.net Although in her case, she had no brother or sister to match bone marrow, it was a great relief to learn that an unrelated individual from the same ethnicity was able to match and can be a donor,” Month said further. Donor Palmero-Sydney’s is newly married. |
Glow run aims to raise awareness about organ donation – Wausau Daily Herald
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Glow run aims to raise awareness about organ donation
Wausau Daily Herald WESTON – Ted Gerbig was born with pneumonia, and as a young man, he battled a chronic lung disease that sapped his ability to absorb oxygen from the air. But that didn’t stop him from doing much. “The way he looked at it, he didn’t have time to be sick. |
Burlington teen to get life-saving stem cell transplant – Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton SpectatorBurlington teen to get life-saving stem cell transplantHamilton SpectatorLaura is in remission and has an unrelated donor willing to do the transplant. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy to keep the cancer at bay while she waits…
Tehreek-i-Hurriyat Holds Blood Donation Camp in Ganderbal – Kashmir Life
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Tehreek-i-Hurriyat Holds Blood Donation Camp in Ganderbal
Kashmir Life On its foundation day, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu Kashmir Friday organized a Blood Donation camp in Ganderbal under the banner of “Syed Ali Geelani Blood Bank”. Pertinently, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat was formed on 7 August 2004 after senior leaders Syed Ali … |
New Jersey Career Fire Chiefs Host Charity Softball Tournament – Parsippany Focus
Parsippany FocusNew Jersey Career Fire Chiefs Host Charity Softball TournamentParsippany FocusThe registry is dedicated to finding compatible unrelated donors for lifesaving bone marrow transplants. Based in Montvale (NJ), it is one of the largest non-…
Organ donation in SA is in crises – The New Age Online
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Organ donation in SA is in crises
The New Age Online Twenty-one-year old Tshepo Molelekwa, a Human Resource student, is in dire need of a kidney donor. Molelekwa’s ordeal started when he was six-months-old after doctors had to remove his one kidney because it was not functioning well. He has been … |
Dog days for donations – Brockville Recorder and Times
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Dog days for donations
Brockville Recorder and Times As demand grows, the decline of donations related to the summer months can have a significant ripple effect and impact. Nearly 40 per cent of the South Grenville Food Bank’s clients are under 18, meaning a large population of area children risk … |
Alameda County prosecutor placed on leave after allegations surface of illegal … – San Jose Mercury News
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Alameda County prosecutor placed on leave after allegations surface of illegal …
San Jose Mercury News “A considerable amount of the discussion by the parties in that regard has related to preserving the privacy of third parties and the integrity of ongoing government investigations.” U.S. government attorneys filed documents Thursday alleging that Chow … |
Opinionator | It’s Time to Compensate Kidney Donors – New York Times (blog)
New York Times (blog) |
Opinionator | It’s Time to Compensate Kidney Donors
New York Times (blog) Removing disincentives would help to lessen discrimination — poor people suffer more kidney disease, but have less chance at living donors who could get them off the waiting list. Having more living donors would shorten the wait for a deceased donor … |