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...genetic condition that left him with holes in his heart. If his condition deteriorated, doctors wanted to allow Luke to die; last November he did. A similar case is currently going through the British courts involving Charlotte Wyatt, a 17-month-old girl suffering from serious brain, lung and kidney damage. Physicians say the child, who's already been resuscitated three times, should not be revived again; the parents disagreed and have been back to court with evidence that the baby's condition had improved. A ruling is expected in April...
...refusing to eat while drinking little or nothing was until recently a common way to die.) Moistening the lips and mouth will keep the skin in this area from cracking. The lack of fluid leads to a buildup of ketones that induces a coma, along with kidney failure or cardiac arrest--a deceptively dramatic-sounding breakdown that nonetheless can release a patient from life quite gently. --By Christine Gorman...
...tumor from the inside out. Salmonella is a familiar but unwelcome interloper in kitchens and at picnics, thriving in uncooked meats and other food products such as eggs. Once in the blood, its surface coat can trigger septic shock, a hyperaggressive immune response that can lead to liver and kidney failure and a dangerous drop in blood pressure. Confined to a tumor, however, the bacterium could be a potent cancer killer. Like the measles virus, salmonella zeroes in naturally on tumor cells. "If an animal has a tumor, that tumor is salmonella's favorite place to go," says David Bermudes...
...Jackson in 2000, when the accuser was 10 and suffering from what was diagnosed as incurable leukemia. Surgeons removed his left kidney and spleen and a 16-lb. tumor. He was given large doses of chemotherapy, which doctors said would either save his life or kill him. The kid deserved a break. When he asked to meet his hero, Michael Jackson, it was arranged...
...away, leaving her muscles showing. Her jaw would not open. There was an ugly red scar from her breast to her belly button where surgeons had opened her up twice--once in Baghdad and again at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, to check her lacerated liver and kidney. Sections of the scar still keep opening up in a cascading "buttonhole" effect: one hole opens, then heals; then another opens. One has been left open now so that pus can flow out of her body. "It stinks really bad. It's hard to accept. Why me?" asks Frentz...