SARASOTA, Fla. - Nancy Newby, a McNeal elementary school teacher in Manatee County needs help finding a bone marrow match.

Newby is battling Multiple Myeloma, a form of blood cancer and needs a bone marrow transplant, but no one in her family is a match. 

With help from The Icla da Silva Foundation, McNeal hopes to find her match.

A bone marrow dr [ … ]

Airam da Silva of The Icla da Silva Foundation, Dr. Joel Brochstein from Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Lisa Horner and Carly Nieves at the bone marrow drive held at CCMC. Credit Courtesy North Shore-LIJTo help increase the number and diversity of people in the National Marrow Donor Program’s bone marrow registry, the North Shore-LIJHealth System [ … ]

Cancer has wrapped itself around the branches of Dayana Pacherres’ family tree like a honeysuckle vine strangling a towering oak.

At least nine people in her family have died from the same disease – acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, a fast-moving blood cancer not usually considered hereditary.

Dayana’s big brown eyes and solemn face are a reminder [ … ]

Dr. L. Dawn Christian will be opening her office on Saturday for residents to participate in a bone marrow drive for minority patients in need.

On Saturday, May 5, residents can help make a difference, and it will just take a few minutes of your time.

The Icla da Silva Foundation needs your help to find bone marrow matches.  The procedure is si [ … ]

Dianne Martinez

NEW YORK, March 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, April 7th, 2012 from 12pm to 5pm the Newfield High School will host a bone marrow drive to help find a compatible marrow donor for Board of Education employee Dianne Martinez.

Dianne is a very caring and beautiful 39-year-old Hispanic woman who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphobl [ … ]