Link PICCs:myths of marrow donation, saving cord blood, reasons people don’t donate blood and what healthcare reform has forgotten
Kevin Walsh, the author of The Marrow in Me as well as a past bone marrow donor and television anchor discusses five myths associated with marrow donation.
BBC reports on a woman in the United Kingdom wants to donate her soon-to-be-born baby’s cord blood to help others. The trouble is she can’t. The stems cells found in cord blood can be used in to treat a variety of disorders, including those effecting the bone marrow like leukemia.
Take a look at the Top 10 reasons people don’t donate blood according to the American Red Cross.
Philadelphia Inquirer opinion piece on what healthcare reform has forgotten: the patient.





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