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Posts Tagged ‘Mayo clinic’

Marrowthon event aims to register bone marrow donors

Ceci Christensen is a Gilbert teen who has raised awareness of bone marrow donations after receiving a life-changing diagnosis of a blood-cell disorder. Photo: Daniel Friedman.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital and the Blood and Marrow Transplant program at Mayo Clinic are playing host to the National Marrow Donor Program’s Be the Match: Marrowthon on Monday, July 9, aiming to register new bone marrow donors. Anyone from ages 18 to 60 and in good health is encouraged to attend. Participants will fill out [...]

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Flood 4, Day 4 – Acceptance and resolve

car-office

Until further notice, this is my office. Tina’s office looks pretty much the same. So does Michelle’s and Susie’s and…well, you get the picture. We’re homeless. I feel like I’m stuck in a loop, like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day.” Two years ago, almost to the day, a team of technicians from ABSOLUT Restoration in [...]

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Get the facts on liver disease

The liver processes what we eat and drink, and then filters out the harmful substances we don’t need. But when it doesn’t work properly, the result is often very serious, life-threatening illness.

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Be the match and save a life

If a close relative is not a match, patients can face a needle-in-a-haystack search for a donor. Many die unless they get a bone marrow or cord blood transplant from a matching donor.

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Your hands can save a life

Because of this concentrated public health effort, bystander CPR rates are on the upswing (from 25% in 2004 to 34% in 2009), and survival rates have doubled.

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