Word: marrow
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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...
...fact that bone marrow can save lives, and every person who registers has the potential to save the life of a friend or a total stranger. Given the underrepresentation of minority groups in the national registry, any drive that focuses on minorities is laudable. To register, you may call the American Cancer Society...
...outpouring of support for Kuo by Harvard students is something that deserves praise. We can only hope that Harvard's and the many similar drives organized around the country will prevail in saving Kuo and others desperately in need of a bone marrow match...
...20th century. This 1997 issue celebrates men and women who have contributed to those advances. Not all of the assemblage of healers presented here are doctors. Nurses, technical personnel and seekers of botanical remedies have also found the limelight. So has one committed American woman who donated her bone marrow to a desperately sick person whom she had never met. When she was asked what moved her to come forward, and how she could tolerate the weeks of soreness and fatigue that follow the marrow harvesting, her reply was unassuming. She did it, she says, because "there's no choice...
...greatly reduced the risks from anesthesia during the past 10 to 15 years, have brought about some substantial changes. "Now no newborn is too sick to get pain medication," Berde says. In general, there seems to be more effort to reduce kids' pain from all medical procedures, including bone-marrow biopsies, spinal taps and repeated blood drawings. Says Berde: "I think most major children's hospitals are changing. There is less willingness than there used to be to hold kids down and brutalize them...