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News
More than 100,000 Americans find out each year that they have a life-threatening disease, like leukemia, requiring a bone marrow transplant. About 30 percent of the patients in need of a transplant find a match within their families.
But the thousands of patients who can’t find donors within their…
My co-worker Letty and I had the pleasure of holding a bone marrow drive in Tuscaloosa, Alabama this past Tuesday, February 2, 2010 and hosted by Stillman College. This drive was held in honor of Franklin Geer, a young man that lost his battle to leukemia after complications from a less than perfect…Hope, chemo - & match: Ailing Brooklyn mom keeps faith bone marrow donor will be found in time
Sat, 06 Feb 2010
Jennifer Jones Austin is still clinging to life - and hope.
The Brooklyn mother suffering from leukemia is hanging on to the possibility that someone out there - somewhere - is a match for a bone-marrow transplant.
"I wake up a lot at different hours of the night and sometimes, I have a hard time …Help me save Jennifer Jones Austin's life.
Jennifer, a senior United Way executive and mother of two young kids, is battling leukemia and needs a bone-marrow transplant. But she hasn't found a suitable matching donor.
That's where you come in.
On any given day, 6,000 people need bone marrow to he…Stillman College along with the Icla Da Silva Foundation hosted a bone marrow drive, "Be the Match," on campus Tuesday. The drive is to assit in finding a bone marrow match for Jennifer Jones Austin, a 41-year-old wife and mother of two children, who is suffering from Leukemia. Tuesday's event also …
PEMBROKE — Doug Oxendine has been suffering from leukemia for just more than two years, and now he needs a bone marrow donor to save his life. But as an American Indian, his chances of finding one are low — one in 100.Beginning Friday, the Icla da Silva Foundation is hosting three public donor drive…The Gift Of Life: Donor Registry Events Seeks To Find Life-Saving Bone Marrow Matches
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Fri, 15 Jan 2010
Jennifer Jones Austin had been feeling tired, but no more than anyone else with a full-time job and two young children.
A high fever prompted her husband, Shawn, to take her to their local hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., in September, where she was diagnosed with a virus and sent home. When the fever p…
On December 21st, BronxWorks in partnership with the Icla Da Silva Foundation and Children's Aid Society held a bone marrow drive in the Bronx. The drive was in honor of Jennifer Jones Austin a wife and mother of two with Leukemia that is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. A bone marrow…Brooklyn mother of two suffering from leukemia desperately needs bone marrow transplant
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009
You could be the one to save Jennifer Jones Austin's life.The 41-year-old Brooklyn woman and mother of two is suffering from leukemia and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant.BronxWorks, a Bronx-based social service organization, is holding a testing drive Monday to help find a suitable donor …
A few months ago, life was good. Jennifer Jones Austin felt great. Her career in public service was thriving. When she and her family posed for their Christmas card pictures they had no idea there was a chance she wouldn't make it to Christmas.
"Everything was looking good. I was going to the gym a…
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