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Baby Born From Transplanted Ovary

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Dec 14th 2008 10:02AM

I hate to say it's a miracle, but by heavens, IT'S A MIRACLE! Well, actually, it's science. A baby girl has been born after a twin donated an ovary to her sister, who was infertile. According to reports, this is the first time the ovary transplant ...
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Teen Lives Four Months Without a Heart!

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Nov 26th 2008 10:02AM

D'Zhana Simmons has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. The South Carolina teen lived for four months without a heart. Yes, you read that right. Thanks to a life saving machine that pumped her blood, the fourteen-year-old is the first ...
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Spanish baby engineered to save brother

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Oct 15th 2008 4:00PM

(Click the photo to read more Amazing Rescue Stories) It had to be devastating -- to learn that their son had a deadly genetic disease destined to cut his life short after just a decade. But then science reared its helpful head and offered a ...
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Insurance okays transplant as teen dies

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Dec 22nd 2007 3:23PM

Nataline Sarkisyan had leukemia. I say "had" because it is no longer an issue for her. She passed away last week. She had undergone a bone marrow transplant from her brother, but a complications with her liver meant she needed a transplant. Her ...
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Leukemia patient given own cord blood

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Jan 11th 2007 2:02PM

A 3-year-old girl got a second chance at life after receiving a stem cell transplant of her own banked stem cells for Leukemia. When the girl, who is now six, was born in 1999, her parents saved some of the cells from her umbilical cord in case she ...
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