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A Duke University study on the lasting health consequences for those born prematurely was covered by NBC's Robert Bazell and CBS' Michelle Miller. Even in adulthood those born early can suffer disabilities and impaired fertility, the study found. Miller cautioned about concluding cause and effect: "The mothers were unmarried and poor and, at the time, none had access to the advances in neonatal care now available." There has been a huge increase in prematurity recently, Bazell explained, because fertility treatments are used more often, which lead to more twins and triplets, who are often born early…the organ transplant surgeons at the University of Miami boasted of a procedure that ABC's in-house physician Timothy Johnson (at the tail of the Kofman videostream) called "an amazing technical feat." CBS' Kelly Cobiella described it yesterday; now ABC's Jeffrey Kofman files the same story. The abdominal tumor suffered by Brooke Zepp, aged 63, was considered inoperable because it was covered by vital organs. So the surgeons removed her stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver, intestines and kidneys en bloc, removed the tumor and then reinserted and reconnected them using blood vessels made of Gortex. "Somehow these organs start functioning even when they are not hooked up to the nerves. I do not understand it but it happened," ABC's Johnson marveled.
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