bone marrow registry
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Flags Fly Half-Staff to Honor NJ Principal Who Died After Donating Bone Marrow to Help a Boy He Did Not Even Know
Flags were flown at half-staff Monday in Westfield, N.J., and a funeral is set for Tuesday to honor a beloved principal who lapsed into a monthlong coma and died after donating bone marrow to a boy in France he’d never even met. The death of 44-year-old Derrick Nelson shocked and saddened the community of Westfield,…
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Where Are All the Black Bone Marrow Donors?
“You don’t want to see him on a good day, to be honest; it’s still pretty bad,” Charline Bullock said in an exclusive interview with The Root. Her 5-year-old son, Asaya, suffers from immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked (or IPEX) syndrome, a rare genetic blood disorder that causes multiple autoimmune disorders. “He is a such…