NATION IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : Girl Won’t Need 3rd Liver, Doctors Say

Stormie Jones, the 12-year-old Texas girl who was the world’s first heart-and-liver transplant patient, has suffered only a minor setback and will not need a third liver, physicians at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa., said. Dr. Robert Gordon said the child, hospitalized over the weekend, was suffering from mild rejection symptoms that can be treated by increasing the dosage of an experimental drug. “It’s a mild episode of rejection,” he said, of the replacement liver Jones received Feb. 20, six years after the historic double-transplant surgery.