Article: Bone marrow donation: factors influencing intentions in African Americans.(Clinical report)

Article: Another side of Barry Bonds.(baseball player urges ...
Ebony;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... group of African Americans who are registered ... to become bone-marrow donors ... Barry Bonds Bone Marrow Campaign ... least 1,000 African-Americans and raise ... potential bone-marrow donors available to African-Americans. Less than ...

Article: AFRICAN AMERICANS NEEDED FOR BONE ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 2, 1996 ;     332 words ... ... acute shortage of bone marrow transplants for African Americans, blood samples ... more than 2,000 African Americans die each year from ... often cured by a bone marrow transplant. Most African Americans waiting for a transplant ...

Article: African Americans Should Register As Bone ...
Sacramento Observer;  July 26, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Staci Bush Sacramento Observer 07-26-1995 African Americans Should Register As Bone Marrow Donors. There is a great need for bone marrow ... only 55,170, or 5.3 percent, are African-Americans, even though they are the largest minority ...

Article: Aflac Agents, Employees Boost Bone Marrow Donors ...
The Culvert Chronicles;  December 25, 2008 ;     685 words ... ... registered bone marrow donors ... particularly among African Americans and other ... transplant because African Americans are severely ... underrepresented on the bone marrow donor registry ... urgent for African Americans and other ... to become bone ...

Article: Being of service in King's honor: African-Americans ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  January 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... minorities to volunteer as potential bone marrow donors. So Laguerre, an African ... doesn't matter, the ethnicity of bone marrow donors makes a difference in finding ... nationally to be part of a national bone marrow donor program are African-American ...

Article: Bone marrow drive can help dentist, other ...
Chicago Defender;  September 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... wheelchair for months. After two bone marrow transplants - the first in ... helping to sponsor a community bone marrow drive Saturday, to not only ... life," said Basile. A bone marrow transplant, according to ... about 6 percent -- are African Americans. According to the ...

Article: First Baptist Institutional Church member Kelli Weatherly needs ...
Michigan Chronicle;  December 20, 2004 ;     374 words ...Michigan Chronicle 12-20-2004 Recently, a bone marrow drive was held at the First Baptist Institutional Church ... Michigan Hospital Ann Arbor were able to use Kelli's own bone marrow and were hopeful the transplant would be a possible cure ...