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Health News
Belgian says he was alert but mute for 23 years (AP)

Healthcare workers at a hospital. A Belgian man thought to have been in a coma for 23 years has told of his AP - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.


Mon Nov 23 20:31:15 -0600 2009
Trying last-ditch lung bypass for worst swine flu (AP)

Ryan Damm, 19, a swine flu patient whose life was saved by using a lung-bypass technology called ECMO, sees his physician, Dr. Jeff DeMare at Children's Hospital of Omaha in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients, by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest.


Mon Nov 23 18:54:58 -0600 2009