April 18, 2017
Mayo’s Own American Ninja Warrior Returns to Competition
By In the Loop
Age seems to slow most people down. But Andrew Yori isn’t like most people. We introduced you to Andrew — a.k.a. the K9 Ninja — last year, when he was preparing to compete in an American Ninja Warrior regional qualifying event in Indianapolis. Back then, he was a 39-year-old rookie, just hoping to make it […]
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Tags: Andrew Yori, Bone Marrow Transplant, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine
July 28, 2015
Reunited and It Feels Pretty Good
By In the Loop
It was a quiet reunion over lunch. Well, then there was the photo shoot, and a couple interviews, and some media attention. Nancy McLain was in Rochester on Monday, July 27, with her sister, Bonnie Engesmoe, to visit Robert Kyle, M.D., Division of Hematology Research and member of Mayo’s emeritus staff. It had been 52 […]
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Tags: Aplastic Anemia, Bone Marrow Transplant, Dr. Robert Kyle
November 20, 2014
Staying ‘Shedivy Strong’
By In the Loop
Carl Shedivy was on vacation with his family when he received an unexpected call from his doctor. “She said, ‘We’d like you to come back for a consultation on Wednesday, could you do that?'” he tells WKBT-TV in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Carl said he could, but he wanted a good reason to cut his vacation […]
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Tags: Bone Marrow Transplant, Leukemia
October 2, 2014
Carrying On a Giving Tradition
By In the Loop
Retired air traffic controller Charlie Willwerth of St. Augustine, Florida, boards an airplane with precious cargo — donated bone marrow that he is transporting to a waiting recipient. “There’s a person lying in a bed somewhere who’s needing these stem cells to live again,” Charlie recently told the Jacksonville Business Journal. Charlie knows this from […]
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Tags: Bone Marrow Transplant, Dr. James Foran
August 26, 2014
‘A beautiful event’ of caring
By In the Loop
In 2012, after being diagnosed with myelofibrosis, Joanne Sullivan found herself in need of a bone marrow transplant. She found a match in an anonymous donor in Germany, whose stem cells were flown to Mayo Clinic in Rochester for the transplant. Soon after her transplant, Sullivan’s three sons volunteered to be tested and added to […]
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Tags: Bone Marrow Transplant, Dr. Mrinal Patnaik
February 6, 2014
Got a match?
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It isn’t easy for a 12-year-old to sit still. It is especially difficult for an active, independent 12-year-old like Lacey McClain, who, until her diagnosis of T-Cell ALL Lymphoma, had been active in school, sports, orchestra, and with family and friends. Lacey is waiting on a donor match for a bone marrow transplant. She is […]
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Tags: Be The Match, bone marrow, Bone Marrow Transplant, T-Cell ALL Lymphonma