Pennsylvania girl eligible for adult organ donation after ruling

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Pennsylvania girl eligible for adult organ donation after ruling

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 10-year old girl with cystic fibrosis who had been kept off an adult organ transplant list due to an age-restriction rule will now be eligible for an adult lung transplant, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled on Wednesday. The family of Sarah Murnaghan, a patient at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's intensive care unit, sued to prevent the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a policy that prevents children under 12 from getting adult lung transplants regardless of how ill they are. U.S. ...

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