1. Appeals would be made to fans to join the donor registry. 2. A match is more likely when both are from the same ethnic group, but minorities are underrepresented on bone marrow donor registries. 3. Keone had been unable to find a close enough bone marrow match from his half-sister or from the national donor registry. 4. Thurmond, the oldest person ever to serve in Congress, also signed a donor registry Tuesday as part of the campaign for increased awareness. 5. Woods suggests organizations focus on churches, fraternities and sororities if they want to boost minority representation on the donor registry. 6. Besides studying donor registries, HHS officials are considering how to encourage increasingly popular living organ donations. 7. For a long time, no standard national organ donor registry had been maintained to act as a centralised database. 8. This committee would also maintain a national organ donor registry to be located at the Transplant Resource Centre at theKuala Lumpur Hospital. 9. When fans sign up for the donor registry, a former or current Bear will sign as their witness. |