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...have to do. Margaret Mikol is one such hero. In 1978, her daughter Julia was born with severe combined immunodeficiency, which required her to be kept in a completely sterile hospital environment--like the "boy in the bubble." When Julia was 3 months old, she had a bone-marrow transplant that left her with a functioning immune system but unable to breathe on her own. Her hearing was impaired as well. She spent the next two years in the intensive-care unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in Manhattan...
...Salahaddin, to ask for similar alliances against the foreign fighters. And, as TIME's Bobby Ghosh has reported, an influential leader of the Sunni insurgency, Harith al-Dari, has turned against al-Qaeda as well. It is possible that al-Qaeda is being rejected like a mismatched liver transplant by the body of the Iraqi insurgency...
...familiar numbers (47 million uninsured Americans, the ever rising cost of care) and chilling moments (the 18-month-old baby who dies of a seizure when she?s denied emergency-room access, the husband and father with kidney cancer whose insurer won?t pay for a bone-marrow transplant). Together, they will have many moviegoers angry enough to gouge holes in their armrests...
...would-be stuntman suffering from an acute case of suspended adolescence. Rod hangs with his loser friends and dreams about beating up his sadistic stepfather (Ian McShane of “Deadwood”). He eventually plans an elaborate stunt to pay for dad’s heart transplant and win the heart of hottie-next-door Isla Fisher...
Lives are also lost due to a shortage of organs available for transplant. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, each day about 77 people receive hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys, and more—but 19 others die waiting for an organ that never comes. The average national waiting time for a heart is 230 days. Other vital organs take longer. Unfortunately, when an organ transplant is required, time is often of the essence...