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2 hrs ago | CBS News

Video: Obesity now recognized as a disease

The nation's largest medical group has just recognized obesity as a disease. Previously the American Medical Association called it a public health problem.

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Related Topix: Cervical Cancer, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

5 hrs ago | CBS Local

Delaware County Girl Takes Big Step Towards Recovery 1 Week After Lung Transplant Surgery

The 10-year-old Delaware County girl who underwent a double lung transplant one week ago has taken a big step toward recovery according to a message posted on Facebook by her mother.

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Related Topix: Health, Delaware County, PA, Newtown Square, PA, Philadelphia, PA

8 hrs ago | PhysOrg Weblog

Diabetes key to transplant success, research finds

Better management of diabetes could dramatically improve outcomes for lung transplant patients, with new research showing that those without diabetes lived twice as long as transplant recipients with the disease.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Diabetes, Vitamin D, Supplement

12 hrs ago | Bellingham Herald

Organ scarcitya s the real transplant dilemma

A Pennsylvania family's legal fight to get a lung transplant for Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old with cystic fibrosis, ultimately proved successful.

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Related Topix: Health

16 hrs ago | The American Conservative

Do We Spend Too Much on Sarah Murnaghan?

Saving this little girl's life was a miracle of science-and an act of defiance against an efficiency-obssessed healthcare policy.

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Related Topix: Health, Health Care Policy, Drama Movies, It's a Wonderful Life

17 hrs ago | Journalgazette.net

Cookbook raises cash for transplant recipient

What: Donating hair to Locks of Love and selling 'Recipes for Life' cookbooks to help raise money for transplant-related expenses for Orlan Holmes When: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday Where: A Cut Above Hair Salon, 4514 Parnell Ave. Contact : 483-7904 The 'Recipes for Life' cookbook will be sold to raise money for ... (more)

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Recipes, Medicine

Tue Jun 18, 2013

PR-inside.com

New Market Research Report: APT Pharmaceuticals, Inc. -...

APT Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a drug development company, based in the US. The company is involved in pulmonary delivery treatments for lung diseases.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cyclosporine (generic), Neoral, Burlingame, CA

Circulation

Left Ventricular Assist Device in a Patient With a Concomitant...

From the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery , Clinic for Cardiology, Pneumology, and Angiology , Heinrich-Heine University of DA1 4sseldorf, DA1 4sseldorf, Germany; Cameron Health Inc, San Clemente, CA ; and City University, London, United Kingdom .

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Related Topix: San Clemente, CA, Essex County, England, United Kingdom, World News, Greater London County, England, Health, Czech Republic, Kidney Cancer

WTVF Nashville

Lung In A Box

More than 1,600 people in the U.S. are currently on the waiting list for a lung transplant.

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Related Topix: Health, Kidney Cancer, Lung Cancer

WVNY

Drinking during pregnancy

A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season, with officials worried it could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a... A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon ... (more)

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Related Topix: Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan, Health, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, US Governors, Jan Brewer, Eli Lilly, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry

CBS News

Video: Don't take vitamins, doctor warns in new book

Americans spend $34 billion a year on vitamins, supplements and alternative therapies.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Genetics, Pennsylvania

Surgical Products

Arizona Hospital Performs State's First 'Lung-In-A-Box' Transplant

Lung transplant surgeons at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix have performed Arizona's first "breathing" lung transplantation.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicine, Surgery

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Pennside girl with severe immune deficiency needs double-lung and bone-marrow transplants

Angel Boston loves YouTube, dancing and playing with her little sister, Isabella.

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Related Topix: St. Petersburg, FL, Health

Mon Jun 17, 2013

MSNBC

Facebook boosts organ donor signups, study shows

Focus on Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old Pennsylvania lung transplant patient, has highlighted the shortage of donor organs in the U.S. Now, a new study suggests that Facebook and other social media sites might help.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Health, Johns Hopkins University, Acosta, PA, US News, Liberal Political News

MyFoxPhilly

Experts Weigh In On Sarah's Recovery

A week ago Sarah cheered at the prospect of getting another chance at life. Now her family is waiting for her to take her first breath with her new donor lungs.

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Related Topix: Health

WOI-TV West Des Moines

Official: Solar plane to help energy use on ground

By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.

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Related Topix: Health, Chantilly, VA, Energy, US Energy Systems

CBS News

Video: Study: Red meat could increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes

New research finds the amount of red meat in your diet could increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Health

PerrSpectives

How Obamacare Ends the Real Death Panels

For four years, "death panels" has been the GOP's killer lie in the debate over the Affordable Care Act.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, US Governors, Sarah Palin

WFMZ-TV Allentown

Health Beat: Lung in a box

More than 1,600 people in the United States are currently on the waiting list for a lung transplant.

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Related Topix: Health, Kidney Cancer

WLBT-TV Jackson

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.

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Related Topix: Health, Social Software, Newtown Square, PA, Acosta, PA