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NFL star to host ‘LIV Life’ Party Super Bowl Week

Jan 2020 MEDIA COVERAGE

Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter is helping Gift of Life Marrow Registry fight leukemia and other blood diseases with a special Super Bowl LIV celebration in Miami Beach on Jan. 29. Carter, a former wide receiver for the Eagles, Vikings and Dolphins, will host Gift of Life’s "LIV Life" Party at Bodega Taqueria y Tequila, 1220 16th St., Miami Beach. The event will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

5-year-old Dighton ‘firefighter’ meets his bone marrow donor

Jan 2020 MEDIA COVERAGE

Five-year-old honorary Dighton firefighter Grant Medeiros and 31-year-old Graeme Ossey already had a lot in common when they met for the first time recently in Boca Raton, Florida. Ossey was Grant’s bone marrow donor and they recently got a chance to meet each other at the Gift of Life Marrow Registry’s Steps for Life 5k Run/Walk South Florida.

Boy meets bone marrow donor who saved his life

Jan 2020 MEDIA COVERAGE

Four-year-old Grant Medeiros of Dighton was diagnosed with leukemia in 2017. He’s spent several long stints in Boston Children’s Hospital, has had multiple surgeries, and received a bone marrow transplant in June 2018. Now that he’s cancer-free, Grant was able to meet the man who helped save his life.

4-year-old Leukemia survivor meets man who saved his life

Jan 2020 MEDIA COVERAGE

A lifesaving, 31-year-old Chicago resident finally met the 4-year-old, Massachusetts boy whose life he saved two years ago after donating bone marrow through the Gift of Life Marrow Registry. The emotional meeting took place yesterday during the Gift of Life's Steps for Life 5k Run & Walk, held at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

Florida Mayhem fights to cure blood cancer at Steps for Life 5k event

Jan 2020 MEDIA COVERAGE

Overwatch League team Florida Mayhem will be fighting to cure blood cancer at the Steps for Life 5K event this upcoming Sunday. Florida Mayhem has joined forces with Gift of Life, an organization dedicated to saving lives through bone marrow and stem cell transplants. We're walking (and running) for a cure!

Sunnyvale man, a serial organ donor, gives liver to rabbi he doesn’t know

Jan 2020 MEDIA COVERAGE

Eric Steger donates a lot — not money, but parts of his body. And he gives them to people he doesn’t know. In 2007, the 50-year-old Sunnyvale man donated bone marrow to a dying woman in Maryland, saving her life. In 2010, he flew to Israel to donate a kidney to a desperately ill woman, but he was rejected when doctors diagnosed him with hypertension. Last week, he donated part of his liver to a rabbi living in Iowa.