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South Florida is stepping up to help give the gift of life

Aug 2023 MEDIA COVERAGE

Miami Beach Police and the Gift of Life Marrow Registry hosted a donor recruitment drive, Tuesday. The event encouraged officers, firefighters and community leaders to swab their cheeks in hopes of finding a match for patients suffering from various blood cancers. At the event, a leukemia survivor got to meet the hero who saved her life.

Blood stem cell recipient meets donor in Boca Raton

Aug 2023 MEDIA COVERAGE

Mitchell Stern of Boca Raton, who survived myelodysplastic disorder, a type of blood cancer, met his donor, Raphael Eidelman of Los Angeles at a Gift of Life Marrow Registry event.

100,000th Birthright Israel participant joins marrow registry

Aug 2023 MEDIA COVERAGE

To date, 434 lifesaving transplants have been make thanks to Birthright alumni. This meaningful achievement is the result of a nearly two-decade partnership between Birthright Israel and the Gift of Life Marrow Registry.

Sisterhood is selflessly helping those in need

Aug 2023 MEDIA COVERAGE

Approximately every three minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with a type of blood cancer. Through bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell donations, though, there is hope for the more than 185,000 adults and children who will be diagnosed with blood cancer every year.

Gift of Life changing the lives of people in Palm Beach County

Jul 2023 MEDIA COVERAGE

WPTV video report on Gift of Life's Campus Ambassador Symposium in July, 2023, including the heartwarming meeting of 14-year-old Michael Johnson with Adam Leblanc, the stem cell donor who saved his life.

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How a Long Beach man saved a stranger’s life

Jul 2023 MEDIA COVERAGE

In February 2021, Julius Wolfe came down with a fever, and small red spots, called petechiae, appeared on his legs. His mother, Tabitha Nilson, took him to an emergency room to make sure he didn’t have Covid-19 or some sort of allergic reaction. He was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a rare cancer of the blood and bone marrow.