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Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law
LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska lawmakers have approved adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that resulted in 35 children -- including teenagers as old as 17 -- being abandoned at state hospitals.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-11-21
Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier
LONDON - Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy.
Source:(AP)
2008-11-21
Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital
MIAMI - D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart."
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-11-20
Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells
LONDON - Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.
Nations:U.K. Italy Source:(AP)
2008-11-18
"Pregnant man" pregnant again
LOS ANGELES - Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but lives as a man in Oregon after surgery and hormone treatment, is expecting a second child, Beatie has told Barbara Walters in an interview set to air on television on Friday.
Nations:U.S. People:Barbara Walters
2008-11-13
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