How Twitter’s IPO hatched this dad’s start-up
CNBC
Of the remaining 8 cents, 4.91 cents goes to a group called Network for Good, which handles all the payment, administration and tax-related issues. Stand collects 3.09 cents. Harr said that setting Stand up as a for-profit gives it the best chance of …

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House GOP skeptical of explanation for lost tea party emails
U.S. News & World Report
FILE – This March 5, 2014 file photo shows former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner on Capitol Hill in Washington. IRS employees erased computer backup tapes a month after officials discovered that thousands of emails related to the …
Watchdog Blames IRS Incompetence for Lost Tea Party EmailsABC News
Watchdog reveals evidence was destroyed during probe of IRS targetingFox News
Watchdog: IRS workers mistakenly erased tea party emailsDeseret News

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UN Dealing with Food, Health Crisis in Northern Cameroon
Big News Network.com
“It is also about health services and support and an important psychological support because of the trauma they have been through and support to education and local economy rehabilitation and all what is related to early recovery.” This year, the …

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Retired 22 Division detective in need of liver transplant
insideTORONTO.com
“We asked if it was okay to reach out to the public and try to drum up interest, because he could be waiting forever on the deceased donor list,” MacDonald said. Persons with O positive or O negative blood types may be suitable donors. According to the …

UN-backed report warns against complacency in fight against Aids
Financial Times
Widening access to antiretroviral drugs has helped reduce the number of Aids-related deaths by 35 per cent since the peak in 2005 to 1.5m. But Prof Piot said this success — and the perception that HIV need no longer be a death sentence — had blunted …

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Vodafone’s Blood Donation Exercise to support flood victims
Citifmonline
Vodafone Ghana Foundation is embarking on a blood donation exercise at its headquarters within the Airport City enclave in Accra on Friday 26 June 2015, to support victims of the recent heavy rains and floods. The exercise, which is aimed at increasing …

Canadian Blood Services’ Cord Blood Bank is now officially launched
Canada NewsWire (press release)
Approximately 25 per cent of people requiring a stem cell transplant are able to find a match within their own family – the other 75 per cent must look outside their families for an unrelated donor. Even with access to over 635,000 publicly – banked …

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UK plans world’s first artificial blood transfusions by 2017
Engadget
To better treat specialist patients, scientists have experimented with lab-grown organs and cells for some time. For the NHS, maintaining UK blood supplies is also high on the agenda, so it’s been working to offset the fall in donations by growing its …
Blood made in the lab will be given to humans in two yearsTelegraph.co.uk
Human trials using artificial blood made from stem cells to start soonInternational Business Times UK
NHS to give volunteers ‘synthetic blood‘ made in a laboratory within two yearsThe Independent
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Blood made in the lab will be given to humans in two years
Telegraph.co.uk
Earlier this month, NHS authorities warned of a growing crisis in blood donation, and a huge fall in volunteers offering to donate blood. Official figures show that 40 per cent fewer new donors came forward from England and Wales in 2014/15, compared …
Human trials using artificial blood made from stem cells to start soonInternational Business Times UK
NHS to trial plans to treat patients using ‘artificial’ blood grown from …Daily Mail
NHS to test artificial blood which could revolutionise treatment of seriously …Mirror.co.uk
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