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Transcript: BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY REAUTHORIZATION:BILL FRIST
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- Congressional Testimony
- Article date:
- April 23, 1998
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Margaret Camp April 23, 1998
(202) 224-5401
Joint Hearing of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee Subcommittee
on Public Health and Safety and the House Committee on Commerce Subcommittee
on Health and Environment "The 'Gift of Life'-- Increasing Bone Marrow
Donation and Transplantation"
Opening Statement of Chairman Bill Frist
The hearing will come to order. I'm very pleased that we can observe
National
Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week with a joint hearing on the
reauthorization
of the National Marrow Donor Program. Since 1986, the National Marrow
Donor
Program has been facilitating ...