Students join fight against leukemia
Glasgow Evening Times, UK

About 70% of patients suffering from leukemia, aplastic anaemia and other bone marrow diseases do not have a suitable sibling who can help treat the conditions. The larger the donor registry list, the better chance of helping thousands of patients. …
Yale Student's Leukemia Prompts International Bone Marrow Drive … Latin American Herald Tribune
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Yale Student's Leukemia Prompts International Bone Marrow Drive …
Latin American Herald Tribune, Venezuela

NEW HAVEN — A group of Yale University medical students and friends are using the case of Natasha Collins, a 26-year-old first-year medical student who has been struck down for a second time with leukemia, to highlight the plight of mixed race …

Nuclear test danger has long passed, researcher says
Deseret News, UT

Dr. Joseph L. Lyon, a Harvard-educated epidemiologist, was part of studies in the 1970s and 1980s that discovered higher rates of leukemia and thyroid cancers after the tests. Those government-funded studies, he says, found that leukemia deaths …

Robert ‘Bobby' Corrales succumbs to leukemia
Signal, CA

By Alyssa Stanley Robert “Bobby” Corrales, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was stationed at Santa Clarita Superior Court, died Thursday, April 23 at UCLA Medical Center following a long battle with acute myloid leukemia. Corrales, of Valencia …

Coaching softball gives former Spartans' star a break from daily …
Citizens Voice, PA

Two months after settling in at East Stroudsburg and playing several games with the Warriors in the fall, Jessica was diagnosed with leukemia. Her education, her athletics, her everyday life as a teenager came to a screeching halt. …

Drug That Inhibits Acute Leukemia Cell Growth Discovered
Science Daily (press release)

ScienceDaily (Apr. 26, 2009) — Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered how to turn off a certain receptor that promotes the growth of leukemia cells. The pre-clinical study …

Dinner to aid leukemia patient
Orlando Sentinel, FL

… Eustis First Assembly of God, 2024 S. Grove St. Proceeds will go toward medical expenses for Eustis resident Daniel T. McWilliams, who was diagnosed in February with AML — acute myeloid leukemia in which cells lose the ability to function normally. …

Fourth Street Students Learn Through Service
kypost.com, KY

A car wash and beautification project will take place at the school starting at 9 am Saturday to honor 4th-grader Christopher Smith, a classmate and a leukemia patient. As part of Global Youth Service Day—a global event involving youth participating in …
Youth service day draws 100s Cincinnati.com
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Local DJ Helping 6-Year-Old Leukemia Patient
CBS 4, FL

When you look at Jasmina Anema, you would never know that she's battling Leukemia. She's full of life and often shows off her beautiful smile when she's with her family and friends. But she's in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant in order to …

Competing To Benefit Blood Cancer Research
Loudoun Connection, VA

With any luck — and a whole lot of effort — she will someday soon be named the regional and national Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Woman of the Year. Whether she wins that crown or not, however, the pursuit of that title will help a whole lot of people …
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