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.
Floridians will not have the opportunity to vote on recreational cannabis in November 2020. Make It Legal Florida, the organization behind a massive push to put adult-use cannabis on Florida's ballot, announced it will instead "shift focus" to the 2022 midterms.
The world’s oceans last year were warmer than at any point in recorded human history — and heated so quickly that they absorbed the equivalent of nearly 4 billion atom bombs of heat in just 25 years, according to a study published Monday.
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JetBlue plans to invest in green projects designed to absorb or avoid the greenhouse gas emissions being produced by the airline’s 1,000 daily flights.
The American Petroleum Institute at its annual State of American Energy event Tuesday highlighted the economic and environmental benefits of hydraulic fracturing, as critics argue it stands in the way of addressing climate change.
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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, killing one man, injuring at least eight other people and collapsing buildings.
