NUMBERS IN THE NEWS


March 10, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

NUMBERS IN THE NEWS

600,000

Associated Press

The number of blacks who have registered as potential donors with the National [bone] Marrow Donor Program, or about 7 percent of the 8 million people who signed up. This means some black Americans with leukemia and other diseases are unable to have life- saving stem-cell or bone-marrow transplants.