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Ángel Escalera
The Regional Blood Transfusion Centre is calling for people from all blood groups to donate after reserves of blood fell below their minimum levels. They are particularly interested in donors from the O+ and O- blood types. Isidro Prat, director
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JUAN SOTO
...which will entail a stay in hospital. His campaign to encourage people to become bone marrow donors, with a much more altruistic objective than obtaining a cure for himself, resulted in the donor banks expanding by 1,300 per cent in Malaga province ... and many people like Nereida, Patricia, Miguel, Miriam, Pablo, Lidia, Sonia, Lorena and Mariem (who feature in this article) registered as donors and decided to continue Pablo's legacy. Pablo Ráez's legacy will live on in a documentary which will ... province and then around the world through barely a handful of posts on Twitter, only 200 people a month were registering as donors. That figure rose to 2,000 and in 2016 the province registered a record 11,201 new bone marrow donors, which was an increase
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ÁNGEL ESCALERA
Pablo Ráez's message is still having an effect and the number of new bone marrow donors who registered in Malaga province last year was 300 per cent higher than expected. Pablo, a young man from Marbella who died of leukaemia in February last ... year, inspired numerous people to join his campaign for bone marrow donors, and his story went viral on social media. Andalucía now has more bone marrow donors than any other region of Spain, says Isidro Prat, the director of the Regional Blood ... Transfusion Centre (CRTS), which registers and manages these donations in Andalucía. By the end of November last year, 19,079 people in the region had registered as donors, and the number had risen to over 20,000 by the end of the year. In Malaga there were
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I. IBÁÑEZ
“The first transgenic transplants of pig hearts in humans will take place in 1996,” the newspapers of the 90s used to say, but the 'mad cow' crisis and the spread of Aids put a stop to the idea of xenotransplants for fear that humans could be contami
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ALBERTO GÓMEZ
A lack of donors and delays in the arrival of public funding puts the continued work of Emaús, which feeds over 550 people at four soup kitchens across Malaga province, at risk. The non-profit organisation is often short of funds to pay for its ... public funding Emaús survives thanks to donors, although numbers have fallen in recent months. “People think that the crisis is over and that we don't need as much help any more, but the reality is that we still have to provide food for hundreds of
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Nieves Castro
...progressive Marbella can't allow its image to be linked to the barbarous act that the PP aims to carry out with this new privatisation.” She added that the council should be working with voluntary groups, vets and donors instead to prevent unnecessary killing
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NIEVES CASTRO
...attitude gave visibility to leukemia and increased the number of blood and bone marrow donors. “Our aim is for the example which Pablo gave us to last for ever via this documentary,” said his uncle about the film, which will last between 70 and 90
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ALBERTO GÓMEZ
Although she supports the idea of individuals being involved in the fight against cancer, and she stresses the importance of finding private donors to finance clinical studies and projects, Blasco doesn't mince her words when talking about the cutbacks ... from donors. I believe it is very important that governments support research to the maximum, and in that respect Spain is lacking in contrast to Germany or the Scandinavian countries. In fact, Spain is even below the European average. Having said that,
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Rachel Haynes
The couple are still living in Switzerland while his appeal goes through. Society Pablo Ráez dies The young Marbella leukaemia sufferer whose campaign for bone marrow donors was followed by thousands on social media died in February 2017. Pablo ... Ráez, who was only 20, shared his fight against the illness with his followers to encourage more donors to come forward. He will be remembered for his trademark pose with fists clenched and his slogan, “siempre fuerte” - “always strong”. Business SUR
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ISABEL IBÁÑEZ
...heart conditions), which accounts for about 10 per cent of all heart transplants in Spain. The survival rate is between 85 and 90 per cent. A child needs a heart which is a bit bigger than his or her own, and as there are so few donors there are