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Point, Click, Save This Woman's Life

Sam Sommers | Posted 04.02.2013 | Impact
Sam Sommers

This is a present-tense story about a person in need of your and my help. There's a match out there for Nalini. Maybe it's you; maybe it's someone you know. It only requires a few moments of your time to find out.

Firefighter Meets Bone Marrow Recipient He Saved Twice

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.28.2013 | Impact

New York firefighter Doug Chiz might have made his greatest rescue without extinguishing a blaze. On Wednesday, he met the woman he saved -- twice -- ...

Celebrating the Gift of Life and How to Give It

Jessica Abo | Posted 01.16.2013 | Impact
Jessica Abo

What would you do if your child was sick and doctors told you his or her only chance of survival was finding a perfect bone marrow match?

Synchronicity

Trish Kinney | Posted 12.29.2012 | Healthy Living
Trish Kinney

An odd feeling comes over me as fall starts to creep into late summer. It isn't necessary to consult a calendar to know that all my cancer anniversaries are lining up.

Father Of Bone Marrow Transplant Dies At 92

AP | STEVEN DUBOIS | Posted 10.20.2012 | Healthy Living

-- E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and later won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicin...

Robin Roberts To Undergo Bone Marrow Transplant

Posted 09.20.2012 | Healthy Living

"Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts, 51, is undergoing a bone marrow transplant today (Sept. 20), months after announcing her diagnosis wit...

Another Tricky Case of Celebrity Illness: Robin Roberts

Barron H. Lerner | Posted 11.07.2012 | Healthy Living
Barron H. Lerner

Being severely ill is a painful physical and mental process, even if your celebrity status can garner you thousands, and even millions, of well-wishers.

Teacher Denied Leave To Be With Dying Wife

Posted 09.07.2012 | Home

Time ran out on Thursday for a Georgia woman whose rare infection led to a quadruple amputation and whose husband's unsuccessful battle to take time o...

Help Me Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) with Liz Rowan!

Porter Gale | Posted 11.06.2012 | Women
Porter Gale

"I am not going down without a fight. I am not dead yet. I will fight until my heart stops beating. I will not give up to this disease." Share your support for Liz by tweeting at her at @lizrowan1.

The Lottery of Life

Dan Na | Posted 09.10.2012 | Impact
Dan Na

Due to the lack of minority donors within the bone marrow registry, the process becomes much more complicated for ethnic minority patients. Unfortunately, less than 27 percent of the entire bone marrow registry is non-Caucasian.

Mom Of 3 Girls With Rare Disorders Pushes For Bone Marrow Donors To Be Paid

Posted 06.14.2012 | Impact

Doreen Flynn is desperate to save her three daughter’s lives and is taking on the federal government to do so. The Maine single mom knows that in...

Junior Olympics Hopeful, 8, Puts Dreams On Hold To Help Save Sister's Life

Dacula Patch | Posted 06.06.2012 | Impact

C.J. Clinkscales is an amazing young ­­­athlete with dreams of making it to the Junior Olympics this summer. He is a true star on the track, but of...

POLL: 41 Percent Say Organ Donors Should Get Cash

Posted 05.17.2012 | Impact

Part of what is so inspiring about donating an organ is the selfless nature of the act. The giver doesn't expect anything in return. But with more...

Boy, 5, Dies From Rare Disease; Inspires Almost 50,000 To Give Bone Marrow

Posted 04.18.2012 | Impact

In his five short years, Giovanni Guglielmo inspired a true miracle. Giovanni was diagnosed with a rare genetic immune disorder at five months old,...

PHOTOS: Man Meets Postal Worker Who Donated Life-Saving Bone Marrow

Huffington Post | Emily Heinz | Posted 03.16.2012 | Impact

Six months after Audrey Pollard, a New York post office worker, signed up for the marrow donor registry, she was matched to a man in England, desperat...

Holler If You Hear Stewart Francke

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.09.2012 | Detroit
Doug Bradley

Stewart Francke believes that music, at its finest, should move those of us who hear it to take some sort of action -- to learn more, to right a wrong, or even just to dance and have fun.

Is Payment for "Bone Marrow" a Slippery Slope?

Joel Cohen | Posted 04.24.2012 | Politics
Joel Cohen

Unlike the donor of a body part such as a kidney, may a recipient or benefactor of bone marrow legally pay the donor who "contributes" to the very life of the recipient, just as one may pay a blood, sperm or egg donor?

U.S. State Department Denies Humanitarian Visa Little Girl Who Needs Bone Marrow Transplant

FoxNewsLatino.com | Posted 01.31.2012 | Latino Voices

A 5-year-old girl in Elizabeth, New Jersey, awaits an uncertain fate. Yarelis Bonilla, a United States citizen, has been diagnosed with leukemia and h...

A Perfect Match: A Social Media Love Story

Vineet Singal | Posted 12.19.2011 | Impact
Vineet Singal

Cancer can affect any of us. Perhaps our child. Our brother or sister. Our parent. Our friend. We must increase the number of bone marrow donors registered, not just to save my friend Amit, but to protect our community. Join us.

Help Amit Gupta: $30,000 Reward Offered For Bone Marrow Match

Posted 12.13.2011 | Impact

When Amit Gupta learned of his acute leukemia diagnosis last month, he wasn't shy about asking for help -- and neither were his tech-savvy friends. ...

WATCH: Get Swabbed To Save Cancer Patients

Danielle Cadet | Posted 12.06.2011 | Impact

DoSomething.org has launched a nationwide bone marrow registry drive and is targeting college students, some of the best donor candidates out there. ...

WATCH: Girl, 10, Brings Whole Community Out To Donate Bone Marrow

Huffington Post | Anna Bahr | Posted 11.29.2011 | Impact

It's been two years of chemotherapy and radiation since 10-year-old Chenee Cayco was diagnosed with an agressive form of leukemia. Her doctors now...

Brazil: A World Leader In Bone Marrow Donors

Chris McGowan | Posted 09.07.2011 | Healthy Living
Chris McGowan

In 2010, the well-known Brazilian television actress Drica Moraes was diagnosed with acute leukemia and received a bone marrow transplant in São Paul...

Japanese Workers and Children Overexposed to Radiation

Alexia Parks | Posted 07.02.2011 | Home
Alexia Parks

While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

Considering Geraldine Ferraro And Progress Myeloma Treatment

Dr. Elaine Schattner | Posted 05.30.2011 | Home
Dr. Elaine Schattner

Like many New Yorkers, feminists, hematologists and others, I was saddened to learn of Geraldine Ferraro's death.