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DKMS, SheKnows.com and Save Giovanni’s Friends Pledge to Add More Bone Marrow Donors to the National Registry

Partners Band Together to Help Save the Lives of Patients in Need of Bone Marrow Transplants

NY, NY – (October 24, 2008) – DKMS, the world’s largest bone marrow donor center has teamed-up with Sheknows.com, one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, and Save Giovanni’s Friends, to raise awareness about the need for individuals to register as potential life-saving marrow donors to help save the lives of blood cancer patients.


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DKMS and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s New York City Chapter Announce Partnership

Join Forces to Pay Tribute to Cancer Patients and Recruit Marrow Donors

NY, NY ¬– September 23, 2008 – DKMS, the world’s largest bone marrow donor center, and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s New York City Chapter will team up at this year’s Light The Night Walk® to pay homage to patients battling cancer and to recruit bone marrow donors needed to give hope to more patients suffering from life-threatening blood diseases, such as leukemia and lymphoma.


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DKMS Teams Up with SheKnows.com and Save Giovanni’s Friends to Raise Awareness of the Need for Marrow Donors

Partners Pledge to Add 50,000 Donors to the Marrow Donor Registry by 2009

NY, NY – (August 1, 2008) – DKMS, the world’s largest marrow donor center has teamed-up with SheKnows.com, one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, and Save Giovanni’s Friends, to raise awareness about the need for individuals to register as potential life-saving marrow donors.

The web site, SheKnows.com/bone-marrow,will help promote marrow awareness and will offer its users the opportunity to register as a potential marrow donor and be part of this life-saving movement.


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DKMS, Love Hope Strength and Driving for Donors Set New World

Over 400 Donors Registered in Just Two Days

THANK YOU!

To EVERYONE at Mile High Music Festival in Denver, CO. We set a new record for the most people to register to become bone marrow donors at a music event...435 people in just 2 days!!! Special thanks to DKMS for joining the LHS team in Denver. We could not do this incredible work without you and Driving for Donors. Read more about the drive!


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SheKNows along with DKMS and Save Giovanni and Friends Launch Bone Marrow Awareness Campaign

Pledge to Recruit 50,000 Donors

WHAT: SheKnows www.sheknows.com
partners with DKMS www.dkmsamericas.org, the largest bone marrow donor organization, and Save Giovanni & Friends www.helpgiovanniguglielmo.org to promote awareness of bone marrow diseases and pledges to add 50,000 donors to International Bone Marrow Registry by 2009.

WHEN: Feature launches live on site August 1, 2008

WHERE: www.sheknows.com/Bone-Marrow

WHO: Dr. Jordan Orange, Head of the Division of Immunology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Michael Guglielmo, Founder of the Save Giovanni & Friends Foundation

Katharina Harf, Executive Vice President, DKMS Americas

Contact Erica Schrag for participants available for interview, quotes and more information.

Topics to be spotlighted on SheKnows during the month of August include:

• Bone marrow registry and donation myths medically dispelled.
• First person journal experience of the bone marrow testing process.
• Leukemia diagnosis and treatment
• The story of Baby Giovanni, stricken with a rare immune system disorder, NEMO, confirmed in 68 kids worldwide, at only five months of age.


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DKMS, Love Hope Strength Foundation and Driving for Donors Team Up

Aim to Set World Record for Most Marrow Donor Registrations at a Music Festival

Denver,CO June 17, 2008 - The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), which recently set a Guinness record for the highest concert recorded on land, is teaming up with the world’s largest marrow donor center, DKMS and Driving for Donors, lead by the dynamic 12 year-old, Pat Pedraja, to set a world record for most bone marrow registrations at a music event. The group also hopes to dispel the myths that bone marrow donation, if matched, is risky and believes through education, and a very quick registration process, the Mile High Music Festival will serve as an ideal setting to reduce the number of unneeded deaths due to unmatched recipients and allow concert goers to become part of history.

According to DKMS, the current record of donor registrations at a concert is 230. According to the National Marrow Donor Program, the national average for donor registration drives is 50. With an estimated 100,000 people planning to attend the Mile High Music Festival over two days, LHS needs less than one percent of concert goers to participate to set a world record. Registration requires only a cheek swab, and completion of a donor consent form.


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DKMS Raises over $1 million at 2nd Annual "Linked Against Leukemia Gala"

Super Model Cindy Crawford & Emanuel Chirico Honored and Mario Cantone Emceed the Event and Natasha Bedingfield Performed

New York, New York (May 7, 2008) — DKMS celebrated their 2nd Annual “Linked Against Leukemia” Gala tonight at Capitale in New York City. The black-tie affair raised 1.18 million dollars, enabling DKMS to register over 12,000 new marrow donors. DKMS, the world’s largest marrow donor center with more than 1.6 million registered donors, has helped facilitate more than 14,000 transplants.


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Popstar Natasha Bedingfield Performing at “Linked Against Leukemia Gala" to Benefit DKMS

May 7th at Capitale in New York City

New York, New York (April 10, 2008) — British singing sensation Natasha Bedingfield will perform at the “Linked Against Leukemia Gala” to benefit DKMS on Wednesday, May 7th at Capitale in New York City. Bedingfield is currently promoting her new album Pocketful of Sunhine and rehearsing for an upcoming tour and has added this fundraiser onto her busy schedule. She joins host Mario Cantone and honorees Cindy Crawford and Emanuel Chirico (Chairman & CEO, Phillips-Van Heusen, parent company of Calvin Klein, Inc.) for an unforgettable night.


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Cindy Crawford will be Honored at DKMS's 2nd Annual Linked Against Leukemia Gala

May 7th at Capitale in New York City

NEW YORK, March 13, 2008 -- DKMS is proud to announce that they will honor Cindy Crawford at their "Linked Against Leukemia Gala" on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at Capitale in New York City. The 2nd annual black-tie affair is a benefit to raise money and awareness for DKMS, the world's largest marrow donor center with more than 1.6 million registered donors, which has helped facilitate more than 13,000 transplants.


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Escada Moon Sparkle And Island Def Jam Present A Girls Night Out, In Support Of Singing Sensation Rihanna’s Believe Foundation.

Fun and Flirty New Fragrance Brings Exclusive Concerts and Giveaways

New York, NY (March 11th, 2008) – In 2006, Grammy Award Winning recording artist Rihanna created the Believe Foundation which assists and inspires children in need all over the world. Believe gives children a chance by providing everything from medical attention for children who can’t afford it, school supplies for children in poorly funded public schools, toys for children who are terminally ill and clothes for children in homeless shelters. Escada Moon Sparkle has teamed up with her label Island Def Jam in support of her latest album Good Girl Gone Bad and her Believe Foundation to present a Girls Night Out!


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