Texas Legislature Passes Bill To Create Bone Marrow Donor Recruitment Program
Yusuf Khan and his mother Nadia Shaik. The bill is designed to get more Texans — especially people of color — registered as potential donors. University of Houston senior Yusuf Khan testified in favor of the measure earlier this legislative session, detailing his mother's experience with the bone marrow registry. The night before Yusuf Khan’s high school graduation, he overheard a phone call. “I was up at night and was walking down my hallway and heard my stepdad on my phone and said out loud leukemia but he was whispering, I guess and they didn’t want to tell me," he said. "The ne...
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