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While the United States Navy subsidizes minority registration with the National Marrow Donor Program and caucasians must pay $50, the Kuo drive attained minority drive status, which allows for every 10 minorities who register, one caucasian to register for free. As a result of this and of money raised by the Chinese Students Association and others, no one paid the registration fee last week...
Though she is not a healer by profession, the altruistic donor is imbued with the same stimulus, the same motivation, that has driven medical pioneers throughout history. The force that leads men and women to devote their lives to those who need help is their simple realization that, for them personally, there is no choice. More than a career, this has been their calling...
...many as 50,000 people in the U.S. alone need a heart transplant, only 2,500 transplants are performed there each year. Heart transplants have proved quite effective, with mortality rates of only 20% after a year (but 20% to 30% of patients die while waiting for a donor). For those deemed unsuitable for a donor heart--some of the elderly or those with chronic diseases like AIDS or cancer--there is little hope...
McCarthy has been more cautious than Batista and more research oriented. He picks only patients who are healthy enough to be on the transplant list, so that if the procedure does not work they can be put on a left-ventricular assist device, or artificial pump, until a suitable donor can be found. "We've had a 72% success rate with the procedure," says McCarthy. "If you look at all the people who die just waiting for a heart transplant, those odds are pretty good...
Bone-marrow transplantation is often the last hope for people with devastating diseases: leukemia and other cancers, and certain genetic disorders of the blood, immune system or metabolism. Cure rates range from 20% to 80%, depending on the disease, its stage and the degree of compatibility between the donor's marrow and the recipient...