People Are Dying Because Canada's Stem Cell Registry Is Too White

When Roshlind Mance began to complain of body aches this past summer, her family wasn't immediately alarmed. She was just a teenager, they thought. She would be fine.But a little while later, when the Calgary high schooler nearly fainted while attending summer classes, her family rushed her to hospital. The news wasn't good.Doctors first diagnosed Roshlind with aplastic anemia — a rare, life-threatening blood disease that blocks the bone marrow from producing blood cells. Then, she was dia