Every three minutes, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with blood cancer. These people often rely on bone marrow donations to survive, but getting a match can be difficult. To make registering easier, the non-profit DKMS has launched virtual bone marrow drives. Carina Ortel, CEO of DKMS, explains how an online drive works.
When it comes to donations, not all marrow is made equal. Ortel says studies show that blood stem cells from young men have been found to be the most successful long term after transplants. Finding a match has a lot to do with ancestry. African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are highly underrepresented on the American bone marrow donor registry.
Abbott has announced a new FDA approved rapid COVID-19 test. Dr. John Hackett, divisional vice president of applied research and technology for Abbott's diagnostics business, joined Cheddar to discuss how the test works and its accuracy.
The system that came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane is being blamed for at least four deaths and widespread damage around Lake Charles, an industrial and casino city of 80,000 people.
The storm's power is raising fears of a 20-foot storm surge that forecasters say would be “unsurvivable” and capable of sinking entire communities on the Texas and Louisiana coast.
U.S. health officials have sparked a wave of confusion after posting guidelines that coronavirus testing is not necessary for people who have been in close contact with infected people.
San Francisco Airport officially implements rapid coronavirus testing for employees, becoming the first U.S. airport to do so. Doug Yakel, public information officer, joined Cheddar to talk costs for potential widespread implementation, including passenger testing.
The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling — a development experts credit at least partly to increased wearing of masks — even as the outbreak continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day.
An Associated Press reporter and photographer hiked the renowned Redwood Trail at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Monday and confirmed most of the ancient redwoods had withstood the blaze.
Bee researcher Elaine Evans of the University of Minnesota cautions would-be beekeepers that the fast-growing hobby may be a lot more work than people think they're signing on for.
The new rule would tweak the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which regulates the fiduciary duties of private plan managers.
Crews were battling wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area and thousands of people were under orders to evacuate Wednesday as hundreds of wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week.
