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...Hinckley Jr. in 1981, Ronald Reagan was closer to death, and slower to recover, than anyone admitted at the time. And in 1992, when Paul Tsongas was a Democratic presidential candidate, he and his doctors said he was free of the lymphoma that led to his 1986 bone-marrow transplant. He died of the disease...
...those of you who weren't at The Game last Saturday, the real action wasn't on the field but in the parking lot, at the tailgate. As a transplant from the Midwest, the international home of tailgating, I have attended more than my fair share of these Saturday afternoon rituals. And yet, Harvard--as Harvard is apt to do--puts its own lavish spin on such events. Though most of the parties had familiar offering of hot dogs and beer, not a few were serving up a more decadent fare. There was champagne, pate and cheeses far more exotic...
Without dramatic intervention, Molly Nash, 6, who suffers from a blood disorder that leads to dangerously low blood-cell counts and constant fatigue, could have died within a year. Her only hope was a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a genetically matched sibling...
Another of the founders, Sandra L. Nudelman '03, told how her grandfather had successfully received an organ transplant, but only after being on the waiting list for a year and a half. Doctors had given him three months to live...
...pamphlet distributed at last night's meeting, YODA told attendees that nine people die every day waiting to receive an organ transplant. Right now, there are 67,340 people waiting for transplants. Last year organ donors numbered only 10,073, half of whom were living donors...