Stories

Bone marrow recipient meets man who saved his life

Jan 2017 MEDIA COVERAGE

In front of a large crowd at this year's Steps For Life 5k, 61-year-old Rich Little of Oregon embraced the stranger who saved his life. "This is an amazing feeling finally getting to meet Rich," said Ethan Krafft.

A look at 20 local people who helped make 2016 memorable

Dec 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

10. Carol Hatch - Fourteen years ago, Hatch joined a bone-marrow registry and nearly forgot she had until she received a call two years ago that she was a match.

The gift of life

Dec 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

After they hugged, the first thing the 3 1/2-year-old boy did when he and the detective met was to show the detective his chemotherapy port. This November was the first time Charlie Osborn and Corey Hall had ever met. Charlie was the recipient of Hall’s bone marrow, which was needed to fight an inherited immune deficiency disorder.

Seeking ‘Hope4Adam,’ they found it

Dec 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

When 31-year-old Adam Krief started chemotherapy this past summer for a rare form of blood cancer, he knew it wouldn’t save his life; it could only buy him time.

How a Penn junior is working to fight blood cancer through a new club

Nov 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

College Junior Madeline Moore became the Campus Ambassador of the Gift of Life program and leads the club at Penn with six other members who hold two to three cheek swab drives a month.

Israeli cancer patient meets her lifesaving US bone marrow donor

Nov 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

A former American participant of a Birthright trip this week met the Israeli woman suffering from cancer whose life he saved during his visit. Peter Schottenfels visited Israel for the first time in 2007 on a Birthright educational tour.