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Finding bone-marrow donors a problem for mixed-race patients

Mixed-heritage patients in the US who are in urgent need of a bone-marrow donor to help cure their sickness are in a dilemma since only a tiny fraction of donors on the national bone-marrow registry are of mixed race. Nick Glasgow is sufferring from leukemia and he has not...

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Transplant monitor lax in oversight

"In the past year, UNOS has been blindsided by life-threatening lapses at centers it oversees. After The Times uncovered such problems at two California programs, both abruptly closed. UNOS' failures in those cases are part of a larger national pattern of uneven and often...