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  • Photos Links New lungs buy time but don't cure cystic fibrosis

    The 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who fought for a lung transplant has a difficult journey ahead. The transplant isn't a cure for her cystic fibrosis, and new lungs don't tend to last as long as other transplanted organs.

  • Photos Links Expert: Dying woman should have got Irish abortion

    A miscarrying woman who died in an Irish hospital should have had her blood poisoning detected much sooner and been offered an abortion to improve her odds of survival, an experts' report concluded Thursday in a case that is forcing Ireland to modernize its abortion laws.

  • Photos Court hearing on hold over lung transplant rules

    A court hearing over organ donor matches involving children is on hold after the 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl at the center of the lawsuit received a lung transplant.

  • Health disasters can derail a small business

    The KoKyu relief crew arrived about 7 p.m. on the Friday night of the April Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance in Silk Hope, N.C. That meant that David "Flip" Filippini, owner of the popular Durham, N.C., food truck, could call it a night and have a beer.

  • Enjoy the sunshine but be smart

    The message has been loud and clear: lather up with sunscreen before you hit the beach, the park or anywhere the sun shines.

  • Photos Arizona Legislature ends Brewer's special session

    The Arizona Legislature has voted to end a special session ordered by Gov. Jan Brewer after passing an $8.8 billion budget that includes her Medicaid expansion plan.

  • Posture pointers and pitfalls: Improve your body alignment by adding some habits and losing others

    We've been told to stand up straight as long as we've been able to stand, but sometimes it's harder than it seems.

  • Photos NY judge: Fed plan for morning-after pill sales OK

    President Barack Obama's administration can go forward with its new plan to make the morning-after pill available to buyers of any age without prescriptions, but it needs to do it promptly or face potential sanctions in the long-running dispute over access to the emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

  • Photos Ireland to report on woman denied Irish abortion

    Ireland will publish a long-awaited report into why a miscarrying woman died in an Irish hospital after being refused an abortion, authorities said Thursday as an opinion poll suggested strong public support for extending abortion rights.

  • Photos Links HIV drug can also protect injection drug users

    Doctors should consider giving a daily AIDS drug to another high risk group to help prevent infections - people who shoot heroin, methamphetamines or other injection drugs, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.


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