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  • Dustin Shillcox stands again.

    How paralyzed patients are able to stand again

    By Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent, and John Bonifield, CNN
    In what's being hailed as a breakthrough in spinal cord injury research, four men paralyzed from the chest down have risen from their wheelchairs on their own volition and effort.
  • Dr. Jeffrey Jacobs (center) has pushed for pediatric heart surgery programs to be open about their death rates.

    Surgical death rates for babies kept secret from parents

    By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
    Take a look at a newborn's tiny fist. Now imagine the fist is a heart -- they're about the same size -- and a surgeon must operate on it. Patch up holes. Widen vessels the diameter of a cocktail straw. Sew in thin plastic tubing.
  • Angie Louden's son, Landen Summerford, died after heart surgery at St. Mary's Medical Center.

    Secret deaths: CNN finds high surgical death rate for children at a Florida hospital

    By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN Medical
    She was only 7 weeks old, weighed a mere 10 pounds, and had just had delicate surgery to widen a narrowing in her aorta, the vessel that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. If that wasn't enough, after the surgery, Layla McCarthy stopped moving her legs. The doctors couldn't explain why.

  • 9th baby dies after heart surgery at a Florida hospital

    By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN Medical
    A baby who had heart surgery at St. Mary's Medical Center in Florida died Tuesday, at least the ninth infant to pass away after such a procedure since the program opened at the end of 2011.
  • Fatu Kekula with former President Jimmy Carter

    'Fearless' Ebola nurse trains at Emory University

    By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN
    Just eight months ago, a young woman named Fatu Kekula was single-handedly trying to save her Ebola-stricken family, donning trash bags to protect herself against the deadly virus.

  • Real 'Fault in Our Stars' couple reunited by hope

    By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN
    Katie and Dalton Prager, a young couple who both have cystic fibrosis, celebrated happy news when they reunited Tuesday afternoon after nearly five months apart: Katie is on her way to getting a lifesaving lung transplant.
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    A real 'Fault in Our Stars' couple

    By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN
    Late one night on Facebook, a girl with cystic fibrosis messaged a boy with cystic fibrosis, and both their lives were changed forever.
  • Research chimps are trained to open mouths for medical exams.

    Chimps still stuck in research labs despite promise of retirement

    By John Bonifield and Elizabeth Cohen, CNN
    Despite a promise more than a year and half ago by the National Institutes of Health to retire the vast majority of government research chimpanzees to sanctuaries, hundreds of chimps are still being held for potential medical experimentation, many of them aging and intentionally infected with HIV or hepatitis.
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    Baby buried by 2010 Haiti quake: See her now

    By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN
    For 10 days following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, two CNN colleagues and I lived in a tent hospital run by Project Medishare. Our hearts ached as we heard the cries of the injured, as we watched surgeons performed amputations without general anesthesia, as people died in front of our eyes.