This week, Chava Rivky Amsel traveled to Israel to meet her donor, an Israeli soldier and was accompanied by her family ...
“These stem cells scatter and set up shop in the bone marrow and usually somewhere between 10 to 20 days after we infuse it, we start seeing those new cells starting to show up in their bloodstream,” ...
Finding a matching donor can be a challenging and lengthy process, especially if a sibling match is not available. Voluntary marrow donors are registered in several national and international ...
An airman and a Ramstein High School junior teamed up to register potential bone marrow donors for Salute to Life.
She never met her grandfather who died from leukemia. But being part of the National Marrow Donor Program helped her pay ...
The event featured a poignant first meeting between lifesaving donor Sara Wells and her young transplant recipient, ...
Every three minutes, an American is diagnosed with some type of blood cancer and every nine minutes, an American is lost.
‘You may remember that in the past when you donated blood you also volunteered to be a potential bone marrow or blood stem ...
Atlanta pilot Jack Miller would have almost certainly been near the end if it weren’t for a fellow pilot living hundreds of miles away.
A Ramstein High School junior working on his Eagle Scout project and an Air Force first sergeant who survived a rare form of blood cancer are spearheading a bone-marrow donor drive. Scout ...
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell ...
Ben underwent a bone marrow transplant at the hospital in Minneapolis, with Dr. Ebens overseeing his care. The donor was his ...