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Bend girl's transplant will make medical history books

Stranger's bone marrow is ally in fight against blood disorder

A 6-year-old Bend girl on Tuesday is scheduled to receive the world's first bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor to help cure Glanzmann's Syndrome, a rare blood disorder.

It would be only the the fourth bone marrow transplant in the world to treat the disease, which causes people to....

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