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Up until last April, Shannon Tavarez was living her dream. Each week afterschool, the 11 year-old songbird played a cheerful Young Nala in The Lion King on Broadway. But after being diagnosed with an acute form of leukemia last year, her evening performances have been replaced with heady rounds of chemotherapy, long nights in the hospital, and IV medications. With a bone marrow transplant as her only chance for survival, Shannon's family and friends will hold two drives to help the young star...Read Full Story

‘Be The Match Registry’ is the novel name for the NMDP managed registry and when one joins it, either on the net or personally one has then gained membership to it and no requirement for enrolling again is necessary. On joining the registry, one agrees to donating bone marrow or PBSC (peripheral blood stem cell) based on what’s optimal for the patients. A donor wouldn’t be paying for the donation & is also not compensated for doing so. Every medical expense related to the donating method is...Read Full Story

‘Be The Match Registry’ is the novel name for the NMDP managed registry and when one joins it, either on the net or personally one has then gained membership to it and no requirement for enrolling again is necessary. On joining the registry, one agrees to donating bone marrow or PBSC (peripheral blood stem cell) based on what’s optimal for the patients. A donor wouldn’t be paying for the donation & is also not compensated for doing so. Every medical expense related to the donating method is...Read Full Story

If Nick Glasgow were white, he would have a nearly 90 percent chance of finding a matching bone marrow donor who could cure his leukemia. But because the 28-year-old bodybuilder is one-quarter Japanese, his doctor warned him the outlook was grim. Glasgow's background would make it almost impossible to find a match, which usually comes from a patient's own ethnic group. The doctor "didn't say it was slim-to-none. He didn't say it would be hard. He said 'zero chance,'" Glasgow's mother, Carole...Read Full Story

Doctors say a Yale women's hockey player has about a month to find a matching bone marrow or cord blood donor to save her life. Mandi Schwartz has acute myeloid leukemia. She found out in April that the cancer, which had been in remission since May 2009 had returned. The senior forward has been undergoing chemotherapy in Saskatchewan and will be driven to Seattle on Wednesday to prepare for a transplant, which doctors are planning for July. Yale has held bone marrow registration drives for...Read Full Story

Little Jasmina Anema 's mom will have a very happy Mother's Day on Sunday. You see, 6 year old New Yorker, Jasmina, is fighting a rare and very deadly form of leukemia. The good news is that a widespread public appeal for African Americans to register as bone marrow donors worked. Thousands were tested and the results have turned up not one, but two likely bone marrow matched donors, who may give Jasmina what she needs to knockout the disease once and for all: "I am just thrilled," Theodora...Read Full Story

National Marrow Donor Program Selects Velos Inc. for Its New Clinical Data Repository System PR Newswire — January 20, 2011 MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The National Marrow Donor Program� (NMDP) announced today that it has selected Velos Inc., a leading California health care software provider, to supply its new Product Fulfillment and Clinical Data Repository (CDR) System. It will serve as an enhanced electronic medical record system and is integral to conducting many of the...Read Full Story