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Girl's lung transplant leaves thorny ethical questions
The emails arrived by the dozens. Then the hundreds. Then the thousands. Family and friends of Sarah Murnaghan had posted an online petition demanding that the 10-year-old, whose lungs were ravaged by cystic fibrosis, be given the same access as...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Values, Ethics, Demographics
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Family says prognosis is good for girl's adult lung transplant
Hours into the delicate lung transplant surgery designed to save her life, the prognosis for 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan was good, a family spokeswoman said Wednesday. Speaking by cellphone from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Maureen...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Surgery, Lung Transplants, Justice System
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Pennsylvania girl who got on adult donor list gets lung transplant
The critically ill 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was at the center of efforts to allow children younger than 12 to receive adult lungs was in surgery undergoing a transplant on Wednesday. Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, was...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Lung Transplants, Justice System
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Philadelphia rulings on dying children spur debate on transplants
A second dying child has been given a chance to get a transplant of adult lungs, the latest step in a debate over a policy that has raised medical and legal questions. Javier Acosta, 11, has been placed on the official list to receive an adult lung...
Tags: Judges, Tropical Storms, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Lung Transplants
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Pennsylvania girl given opportunity for adult lung transplant
A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl has been given a chance at a transplant that could save her life after a judge ordered that the desperately ill child be added to the list of those hoping to receive an adult lung. The case, involving Sarah Murnaghan,...
Tags: Lotteries, Tropical Storms, Lifestyle and Leisure, Lung Transplants, Kathleen Sebelius
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The rules of organ transplant vs. a dying little girl
Was U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius being rigid and cruel when she refused an exception to the rules so a 10-year-old girl could receive a lung transplant from an adult? The girl, Sarah Murnaghan, was placed on the adult...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Lung Transplants, Kathleen Sebelius, Justice System
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'American Idol' recap: Hollywood Week -- for boys only
It's Hollywood Week on "American Idol." That usually means we're in for some drama and tension, especially during the dreaded group round – scenes of stressed-out contestants strolling around looking for kindred spirits, flashes of anger,...
Tags: Peter Garrett, Steven Tyler, Chris Watson, Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey
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'American Idol' recap: Steven Tyler in drag? OK!
Apart from Steven Tyler, dressed in drag and calling himself "Pepper," stopping by to spice things up -- he got in a bleeped-out word, a head-scratching farm-animal reference and a moon in record time – things were relatively tame at "American Idol'...
Tags: Toni Braxton, Steven Tyler, Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder
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Stair climbs: Getting a leg up
I call Stan Schwartz a "stair-ologist." But he prefers a warmer, cuddlier term. "I'm a nerd," says the 52-year-old system analyst for the earthquake computer at Caltech. "I studied the staircase in this building like a bug under a microscope. I took...
Tags: Road Running, Empire State Building, YMCA, Cross Country Skiing, Demographics
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Former British prime minister contradicts Murdoch's statement
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My Turn: Ready to celebrate a new hope for cystic fibrosis
For years, a picture of Dr. Francis Collins, torn from the pages of a 1989 issue of Newsweek, held fast to our refrigerator door. Two red magnets placed him in the middle of Little League schedules, school rosters and Citizen of the Month certificates....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Scientific Exploration
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Cystic fibrosis drug ivacaftor offers patients new hope
All her life, Lindsay Shipp knew that she was dying. As a baby, she would cry after eating, and salt collected on her forehead. The diagnosis was cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disease that, at the time, meant a life expectancy of 18 years.
The...Tags: University of Iowa, Diseases and Illnesses, Salt, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Pancreas
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