It’s with great joy that we report on the increased education efforts surrounding marrow donation. One of the NBA’s greatest players of all time is featured in this brief clip. He is speaking on behalf of “Be The Match” – a national bone marrow registry that organizes drives and education campaigns. Check out the video [...]
Would compensation affect your decision to donate bone marrow? That’s the question asked by USA Today HERE.
That question has sparked much discussion and we’d love to hear your thoughts too so this post will be open for discussion. Regardless of how you answer the question please check out the links to the left to see [...]
When Mike Hamel, one of the founders of MoreMarrowDonors.org, learned that he had Non Hodgkins Lymphoma he decided to document his experience for friends, family, and others interested in learning more about dealing with cancer. A committed husband, father, friend, and writer, he has blogged throughout his treatment and recovery process. Now, his story will [...]
Washington, D.C. Today, January 19, 2010 at 12:00p (EST) the Cato Institute will host a panel discussion entitled “Liberating Bone Marrow Donors.” Panelists will discuss our legal challenge and its aim of vindicating individual rights to life-saving treatments and methods. The panel features Jeff Rowes, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice, and plaintiffs’ lead counsel in [...]
We are pleased that the issue of offering compensation for bone marrow donation has received so much attention. Most recently the NY Times carried an op-ed from Dr. John Wagner and Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Jeff Rowes on the subject. You can read the entire piece HERE. Their final sentence encapsulates why MoreMarrowDonors.org exists:
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In an article in today’s American Medical News our lawsuit challenging the National Organ Transplant Act is discussed. As most readers are aware, the lawsuit seeks to allow our pilot program of compensating people that follow through with bone marrow transplants. Many so-called bio-ethicists worry that people receiving compensation will withhold medical information. Information that [...]
In a segment called “Money for Marrow” the Washington, DC NBC affiliate asks whether the government should pay marrow as a way of increasing the supply. Of course this is remarkably close to the goal of MoreMarrowDonors.org where we seek to provide small forms of compensation to bone marrow donors.
One important note is that the [...]
The Newsday editorial board features our vital cause in an article entitled “Bone Marrow Donors Should Be Compensated.” We couldn’t agree more. Click HERE for the full article and thanks for your interest in this important issue. What a wonderful Thanksgiving Day gift a life-saving bone marrow transplant would make – our goal is to [...]
MoreMarrowDonors.org is featured in an article in the St. Cloud Times. The article also features co-litigant Dr. John Wagner, a leader in the field of bone marrow transplants. In the article , MoreMarrowDonors.org board member Shaka Mitchell mentions that our desire is to increase the number of matches and we think providing small forms of [...]
Last week FoxNews.com wrote about the lawsuit that MoreMarrowDonors.org joined challenging the National Organ Transplant Act. The report, while containing some inaccuracies (for instance, Mike Hamel is a lymphoma patient, not leukemia, can be found HERE. The article features opinions from Art Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately Mr. Caplan makes some [...]