Orange Coast College
2701 Fairview Rd.

Costa Mesa, CA 92628-5005

9am-3pm, in the Quad Area

 

California State University Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd. ,

Fullerton, CA 92831-3599

http://www.fullerton.edu/

PARKING INFORMATION  http://www.fullerton.edu/campusmap/ 

Parking Information Center Arts Drive

(on campus, east of the intersection of Arts Drive & State College Blvd.)

9am-3pm - Volunteer & Service Center- bloodmobile

University College Riverside

Date & Time TBA

Riverside Community College- Norco

Date & Time TBA

 Hope Kid's Festival

12-4pm

University of Minnesota,

Bierman Athletic Field

MT. SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE
1100 N. GRAND AVENUE,

WALNUT, CA 91789

http://www.mtsac.edu/

9am – 7pm, Student Life Center, Room 9C

The City of Commerce 
fourth annual Employees Health

and Benefits Open Enrollment Fair

9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Saddleback College 
28000 Marguerite Parkway

Inside - 8am-8pm 

Character Counts Festival
11-4pm

Be The Match Registry

Vista Del Mar School

 California State University Fullerton

800 N. State College Blvd. ,

Fullerton, CA 92831-3599

http://www.fullerton.edu/

PARKING INFORMATION http://www.fullerton.edu/campusmap/

Parking Information Center Arts Drive

(on campus, east of the intersection of Arts Drive & State College Blvd.)

9am-3pm -  inside Pavilion A

Hosted by the Student Health Professionals Association

Cal Poly Pomona
3801 West Temple Avenue

Pomona, California 91768

9am – 3pm.

The drive will be held at the

Bronco Student Center at URSA Major C.

Bone Marrow Drive for Lion King Star
 http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38301673/ns/today-entertainment

 

July 13, 2010
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), in partnership with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), is celebrating African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month throughout July to raise awareness about the critical need for African Americans to join the national registry, publicly known as the Be The Match Registry®. Every year, more than 10,000 patients in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases for which the best option for a cure can be a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor or donated cord blood unit. Approximately 70 percent of patients in need of transplant do not have a matching donor in their family. Patients are most likely to match with a donor who shares a similar racial or ethnic background, therefore making it incredibly important to diversify the registry. The majority of patients in need of potentially life-saving bone marrow or cord blood transplant depend on the national registry for a match. This month the NMDP and CBCF are calling attention to the fact that only 7 percent of the 8 million potential donors on the national registry are African American. Fewer potential African American donors mean fewer potential matches for African American patients seeking transplant. The NMDP is committed to increasing the number of potential donors and diversifying the national registry to ensure that all Americans have access to a match. “We are happy to partner with the NMDP to build public awareness about the importance of African Americans serving as bone marrow donors,” said Elsie L. Scott, president and chief executive officer for the CBCF. “When we talk about health disparities, this is one that is easily solvable by signing up as a donor.” As part of African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month, the NMDP is sponsoring bone marrow donor registration drives during the month of July. At the NMDP and CBCF events, attendees will hear from their U.S. Representatives about the need to grow and diversify the national registry of adult donors, learn more about the NMDP and find out how they can help save a life by joining the national registry. In addition to raising awareness about bone marrow donation, community members expressed support for efforts to grow and diversify the national registry through reauthorization of the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program (Program) and the National Cord Blood Inventory (NCBI). In 2005, Congress passed the bipartisan Stem Cell Therapeutics and Research Act, which created the Program and the NCBI and provided federal funding for the expansion of the national registry. The Program and the NCBI will expire this year and must be reauthorized by Congress to provide continued funding to maintain and expand the national registry. Without additional funding, recruiting adult donors to join the national registry continues to be a challenge. The NMDP is currently working with Congress to secure vital funding for the Program to ensure every American in need has access to a potentially life-saving match. “Growing the national registry starts with volunteers in communities across the country,” said Jeffrey W. Chell, M.D., chief executive officer of the NMDP. “Patients in need of transplant rely on donor drives to expand the registry so that their chances of finding a potentially life-saving match increase. As growing numbers of Americans are in need of transplant, expanding and diversifying the registry is critical, which is why reauthorization of the Program and the NCBI is so urgent.”

check it out -a 1 minute video, great to share with your friends.
http://vimeo.com/11241149

For Jason Ross, one of the Sacramento Kings broadcasters, respite comes from his son, 7-year-old Jackson Ross.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/13/2673567/son-of-kings-broadcaster-lucky.html#ixzz0lCsSOd5N

This is a good resource for families, especially with small children.

 

Watch this....

http://www.mtv.com/videos/true-life-i-need-a-transplant/1633978/playlist.jhtml

 

Hospice Campamento de Fe,

 desperately needs medical and Hygene supplies.

contact Donald Glasgow,

Volunteer Mexico Missionary San Clemente

donglasgow45@aol.com

Genetix drug success prompts $35M funding, exec shakeup, hiring plans Mass High Tech:

The Journal of New England Technology

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:50 AM PST

Genetix Pharmaceuticals Inc. has raised a venture round of $35 million dollars following the release of data showing that its drug target for a rare disease calledAdrenoleukodystrophy has halted the ailment in all three human cases.

Read More here...

“Her dream was to have her own organic ranch some day,” Sachen said. “She was an incredible kid. She was such a wise old soul, very intelligent.” Sachen, of Aliso Viejo, created a foundation called Savannah's Organic Ranch in his daughter's honor and has been planting organic gardens at Orange County schools in her name ever since.

 

Read all about it here:

Check it out...

By MICHELLE THOMAS
Published March 1, 2010

The Panther, Chapman College

"BAHBAD makes it to european water polo website"
 check out the link !

Seun Adebiyi, hoping to qualify for the 2014 games,
was recently diagnosed with rare and aggressive cancer.

He is seeking to recruit 10.000 new potential donors to the national registry.

To hear his story check below...

 A very touching story about Trevor's journey and the need for people to join registry to give HOPE to patients around the world.  Well worth the listen....

 

WASHINGTON - Thirteen patients with healthy new kidneys from what's believed to be the world's largest kidney exchange met the donors who made it happen Tuesday — including three who are sure to face the question, "Why?"

 

The December issue of SELF magazine will feature a four-page, in-depth article on marrow and cord blood donation.  Reporter Sabrina Erderly broadened the focus of a story she was writing about a donor and recipient to include information about cord blood donation. Until she received a cord blood media kit from the NMDP, she was unaware that cord blood could be a source for patients who need transplants. Katie Quinn, a DKMS-Americas donor, donated to leukemia patient Anna Robinson two years ago. 
Read the full article here:

 http://www.self.com/health/2009/12/bone-marrow-donor

“There is so much goodness coming with what we are doing” Nothing touches the heart so much as children in need. Jim Carol knows that agony personally. In 2007 his 11-year-old son was diagnosed with Philadelphia Chromosome, a rare form of leukemia. The Carol family did what any family would do – they moved their family from California to Seattle and to a place where their son, Taylor, could get the best care, beginning with a bone marrow transplant. As Jim wrote on the DonateGames Web site: “We ended up living in Seattle Children's Hospital for almost a year during his chemotherapy. Taylor and the other kids at the hospital were terribly sick, scared and isolated, but video-games played a big part in helping them get better.”

 

Read more at: http://www.gamezone.com/news/11_25_09_11_35AM.htm

An experimental treatment stabilizes two boys with the rare,fatal degenerative disorder known as ALD.

Researchers hail the findings, which come on the tail of other gene-therapy successes.

 

By Thomas H. Maugh II    November 6 2009

 

In the third gene-therapy success of recent weeks, French researchers have arrested the progression of the rare and fatal degenerative disorder adrenoleukodystrophy,

which was at the heart of the popular movie "Lorenzo's Oil."

 

The disease has stabilized in two boys who were 7 years old when the therapy was performed two years ago, the team reported today in the journal Science.

 

The complete article can be viewed at:

 http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-gene-therapy6-2009nov06,0,1848965.story