Needles and I just don't get along.
Aplastic anemia results when the bone marrow fails to produce enough essential blood elements.
Like Wilburn, the younster facing the illness is African American, an ethnic group underrepresented in the national marrow registry. Some 94 African-Americans have received unrelated bone marrow transplants since the registry program began in 1987, according to National Marrow Donor Program statistics. Tenn. The regional collection center recruits volunteers from a number of Mississippi universities, including Mississippi State. Names are added to an NMDP registry, maintained to provide marrow transplants from volunteer unrelated donors to patients with leukemia, aplastic anemia, lymphomas, and other life-threatening diseases. Nearly 1.7 million volunteers are registered.