Diagnosed with leukemia in 1991, Jay Feinberg was told he would need a bone marrow transplant to survive, but there was no matching donor for him in the registry. His loving and persistent family would not take "no" for an answer! They organized an international grassroots campaign to find his donor.

A simple swab inside your cheeks can save someone’s life. That’s not hyperbole but is actually the basis of a bone marrow donor recruitment drive held in person at Congregation Beth Jacob and Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael in late July and continuing online, especially targeting the Jewish community.

A COVID-19 booster shot could be just days away from getting into the arms of people who are immunocompromised. Getting there is a two-step process. The FDA must approve the third MRNA COVID-19 vaccine shot for emergency use. Then the CDC is expected to meet Friday to decide whether to recommend the third shot’s use as a booster.

A Denver man who has overcome cancer twice credits his survival to a perfect stranger. Now Dave Fromson is paying it forward. Fromson and his coworkers at Martinez Fire Protection put together a donor recruitment drive on Wednesday.

The Gift of Life Marrow Registry in Boca Raton is celebrating a lifesaving milestone of 500 blood stem cell donations. It's an achievement that couldn't be made without the help of selfless individuals. The Gift of Life-Be The Match Collection Center is the first such facility to be integrated within a registry.

By simply taking four swabs of cells from the inside of your mouth, it’s possible to save someone else’s life, because for every 400 swabs, there’s a bone marrow match, according to the nonprofit Gift of Life Marrow Registry, which teamed up again with the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway to hold a bone marrow testing event last Sunday. The collection was intended to help a Cedarhurst resident named Shlomo who was previously diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.