CNN spoke with Seun Adebiyi on the need for people to join the marrow registry. Watch it here.
Love to see main stream media cover this, especially a four plus minute spot in the age of sound bite journalism. Adebiyi does a nice job of explaining the ease of registering to become a marrow donor. We [...]
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 [...]
NPR looks at 4-year-old Maya Chamberlin’s fight against a rare blood disease and the search for a suitable bone marrow donor.
The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the single hardest week to get donations, according to the United Blood Services. The need for blood doesn’t take the holidays off.
This Christmas aplastic anemia survivor A.J. [...]
Healthcare reform might not mean reform for some who need it most. Those who make too much to qualify for government subsidies, but aren’t exactly pulling down huge bucks should have a ton of interest in making sure that changes to the healthcare system ensure their care is affordable. This a well-cited problem in [...]
Solid discussion here on the media’s coverage of healthcare reform, and the debate of substantive coverage versus the coverage of the political process. Over the last few months the focus in the United States has been on town hall meetings rather then what proposed health care reform legislation will really mean for Americans and their [...]
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