RENEE MONTAGNE, host: During the course of this year's presidential election, MORNING EDITION is looking at the battleground states, where the race is expected to be close. One is New Mexico, which Al Gore carried four years ago by fewer than 400 votes. NPR's Linda Wertheimer went home to New Mexico to find out how the contest between President George Bush and Senator John Kerry is shaping up.LINDA WERTHEIMER reporting: New Mexico is a sprawling state of deserts...
When Santiago Cruz hugged Erick Chaires on Monday, it was more than a simple meeting of a blood-marrow donor and the recipient. It was symbolic, health officials say, of the importance of minorities registering as donors.Only 21 percent of the nation's 2.4 million registered marrow donors are minorities. The odds of matching someone to a nonrelative is about 1 in 20,000, and matches typically are within the same race, health officials said. Cruz and Chaires, for instance, are...
RENEE MONTAGNE, host: During the course of this year's presidential election, MORNING EDITION is looking at the battleground states, where the race is expected to be close. One is New Mexico, which Al Gore carried four years ago by fewer than 400 votes. NPR's Linda Wertheimer went home to New Mexico to find out how the contest between President George Bush and Senator John Kerry is shaping up.LINDA WERTHEIMER reporting: New Mexico is a sprawling state of deserts...
After an exhaustive search for donors to participate in the National Marrow Donor Program, Florida Blood Services has found its first Hispanic match. Arnulfo Roman, 53, a Brandon resident born in Colombia, is a confirmed match with a 40-year-old man who lives in another state. The recipient, who is married with three children, has leukemia and has been waiting five years for a donor.Roman went to H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in February for the marrow harvesting process. The name of the...