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AP - 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 do read more »
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AP - Li Xiaokai died of kidney failure on the old wooden bed in the family farmhouse, just before dawn on a drizzly Sept. 10.

A Web site created by a father who sought hope amid the tragedy of shaken baby syndrome urges families to post the medical records of children who have suffered brain damage: "If we have tens of thousands of families, it becomes medically relevant."