Performance of “The Imaginary Invalid” to benefit the Ana Rukavina Foundation

The doctors of the Medical School and the University Clinical Hospital in Mostar have showed that they are not only good doctors, but excellent actors as well. On October 25, 2009, in front of a full house at the city theater Komedija, they put on a performance of Molière’s comedy “The Imaginary Invalid”. All of the proceeds from the ticket sales went to the Ana Rukavina Foundation, which was just another confirmation of the nobility and humanity of those in the medical profession.

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“Ana Rukvina” Symposium

The 1st ANA RUKAVINA SYMPOSIUM dedicated to the activities connected to the operations of the Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors and the Ana Rukavina Cord Blood Bank will be held within the framework of the symposium “5th Transfusion Days” which is being organized by the Department of Transfusion Medicine and Stem Cell Therapy at University Hospital Center Zagreb and the Croatian Society for Hematology and Transfusion Medicine of the Croatian Medical Association!

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Ana Rukavina Foundation marks World Lymphoma Awareness Day – 60 new donors join the Registry

On the occasion of World Lymphoma Awareness Day, the Ana Rukavina Foundation and the Croatian Leukemia and Lymphoma Association organized a number of activities on Cvjetni Trg in order to raise public awareness of this difficult, and unfortunately, not so uncommon disease. Educational presentations for the citizens, which were held in the Cultural Information Center, were given by some of the most qualified experts in the field of hematology in Croatia: Professor Igor Auer, MD, PhD, from the University Hospital Center Zagreb, and Professor Slobodanka Ostojić, MD, PhD, and Ljiljana Pomper, BSN, from the Merkur University Hospital.

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World Lymphoma Awareness Day – September 15th

On the occasion of World Lymphoma Awareness Day on September 15th, the Ana Rukavina Foundation and the Croatian Leukemia and Lymphoma Association have organized a number of activities on Cvjetni Trg in order to raise public awareness of this difficult, and unfortunately, not so uncommon disease.

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Split: 105 new donors join the Registry

At the action to join the Registry of voluntary bone marrow donors, which was held on August 26th in Split at Prokurative, there were 105 new potential donors of bone marrow and stem cells that gave blood samples to be tissue typed.

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473 new blood samples have been tissue typed!

Since July 15th, HLA (Human leukocyte antigen) tissue typing of loci A, B and DRB1 has been completed on 473 new blood samples of potential bone marrow and stem cell donors.
The National Registry now lists 12,575 donors that are available to search for matches with patients that are in need of bone marrow transplants.

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