in Westwood will open a 7,500-square-foot dedicated space Monday for its Blood and Marrow Transplant program.
The space’s renovation started in the fall and cost $2 million, KU Hospital spokesman Dennis Minich said Wednesday. The project was paid for by Annette Bloch’s $20 million donation in the fall, Minich said.
The Blood and Marrow Transplant program had been in shared space in the cancer pavilion, he said.
The program had three Read the rest of this entry »
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has relied on the Madoff Family Foundation for about a third of its donor-recruitment budget,
. No longer.
Yesterday, the group’s executive director said he had been getting calls all day from donors who said they wouldn’t be able to pledge to the organization because they’d lost money on Madoff investments. The group, which had planned on a roughly $7 million budget for next year, is looking for $1.8 million in additional Read the rest of this entry »
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10:39 PM CST on Sunday, February 15, 2009
RICHARDSON – Jodie Gee hadn’t had a checkup in years. No need. She had been perfectly healthy.
But after persistent urging from her sister, she went for a routine physical last October. A couple of weeks later, she found out she had severe aplastic anemia, a rare bone marrow disorder that can be fatal.
Gee, 34 and a mother of two, now waits for a lifesaving bone marrow Read the rest of this entry »
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has relied on the Madoff Family Foundation for about a third of its donor-recruitment budget,
. No longer.
Yesterday, the group’s executive director said he had been getting calls all day from donors who said they wouldn’t be able to pledge to the organization because they’d lost money on Madoff investments. The group, which had planned on a roughly $7 million budget for next year, is looking for $1.8 million in additional Read the rest of this entry »
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12:00 AM CST on Saturday, February 7, 2009
birthday, Jessica Jeffrey is giving someone else – an anonymous stranger, no less – a huge gift.
At 7:30 a.m. Monday, the morning of her 49th birthday, Jeffrey will lie face down on a hospital bed at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and let doctors harvest bone marrow from her lower back.
Quite possibly, Jeffrey’s generosity will save the life of another woman, a 40-year-old Read the rest of this entry »
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