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New rules shutter St. Luke’s bone marrow donor program (access required)

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Published: August 7,2008
Time posted: 1:00 am

New rules from the National Marrow Donor Program requiring better representation of minority donors is forcing St. Luke’s Medical Center to shut down its Mountain States Tumor Institute’s Bone Marrow Donor Program.   NMDP instituted the requirement this year, calling for at least 1,000 minority donors a year or the addition of staff to recruit and ...



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