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Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind...


Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that...

Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that...

Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that...




Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind...




Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind...




Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind...








Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind...




Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

May 22nd, 2013
Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, outside his Youngstown, Ohio home Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind...




Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury

May 22nd, 2013
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an...




Cancer Society hits 100 as US cancer rate falls

May 22nd, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — The American Cancer Society — one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups — is 100 years old this week. Back in 1913 when it was formed, cancer was...




Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation

May 21st, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Residents are voting to keep Portland, Ore., as the largest U.S. city without fluoride in the water or any plans to add it. With more than half the expected ballots counted, the Multnomah County election...




Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation

May 21st, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Residents are voting to keep Portland, Ore., as the largest U.S. city without fluoride in the water or any plans to add it. With more than half the expected ballots counted, the Multnomah County election...




Portland, Ore., voting on water fluoridation

May 21st, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oral health and politics collided Tuesday as Portlanders — proudly nonconformist and environmentally minded — decided whether their city remains the largest in the...




Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy

May 21st, 2013
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run...







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