Tonight the Adelson’s were being honored at the annual gala dinner for the Gift of Life Marrow Registry which facilitates life-saving genetic matches for blood-cancer patients. Approximately every three minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with blood cancer.

Dr. Peter Gold, an orthopedic surgeon, saved a woman’s life — but he didn’t need a scalpel to do it. Gold saved 54-year-old Wendy Fullem’s life by donating his stem cells to her. Gold, 28, who lives in Williamsburg, and Fullem, a New Jersey resident suffering from leukemia, met for the first time a year after Gold’s donation, when they both took part in the recent Gift of Life Marrow Registry Steps for Life 5K at Battery Park.

Last week, volunteers at Vanderbilt helped lead a mega-drive for Gift of Life, one of the world’s leading bone marrow and stem cell registries. Gift of Life finds healthy donors for patients battling blood disorders in need of a life saving match through registering people around the country to increase the likelihood that these people will find a match.

When Kent State University hosts its football rivals from The University of Akron this Saturday, October 20th, the schools will have already been competing for a week in a friendly battle to help people in need of bone marrow transplants.

Dr. Peter Gold, a Gift of Life Marrow Registry stem cell donor, met Wendy Fulham, the woman whose life he saved, during Gift of Life's Steps for Life 5k Run and Walk in New York City.

Ten-year-old Seth Akins was on the brink of death when his life was saved by a random stranger. "It was truly a miracle," said Seth’s mother, Renee Floriano, still crying tears of joy last week even though the medical procedure that saved her son’s life happened more than a year ago. Her son had severe aplastic anemia, a rare and potentially deadly condition that occurs when your body stops producing enough new blood cells to survive.