No-cost bone marrow
testing made available
Free bone marrow testing is being offered at all San Diego Blood Bank Donor Centers until the end of March. The Bone Marrow Foundation of San Diego’s donation is allowing people to join the national registry without paying the $52 for tissue typing.
Healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60 are being urged to join the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) registry in case he or she may be a match for one of the thousands looking for a stem cell donor.
To join the registry, a small amount of blood is needed for analysis. According to NMDP, if participants are a potential match they will be contacted to discuss the transplant process. Adult donors are asked to donate in one of two ways, the most common of which is comparable to donating plasma. The second is a simple outpatient surgical procedure with marrow being removed from the donor’s pelvis.
Individuals from varied ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to register because ethnicity and race affect the probability of a match. Donors must have no history of asthma, cancer, diabetes, neck or back problems, heart or circulatory disease and must be within 20 percent of the ideal weight for their height and age as set by the NMDP.
For more information, call (619) 400-8268, or visit www.sandiegobloodbank.org/-bonemarrow/.
CABB slates business
conference at Kona Kai
The California Association of Business Brokers (CABB) will soon be hosting an annual productivity conference at the Kona Kai Resort on Shelter Island.
The theme of the April 5 conference will be “Getting Ready for the Coming Boom,” according to organizers.
The event will feature a full-day program with some of the industry’s leading professionals, covering a full spectrum of business brokerage topics, and will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Kona Kai Resort is located at 1551 Shelter Island Drive.
The cost of the event is $150 for CABB members and $225 for nonmembers.
For more information or to register, visit www.cabb.org.