Second U.S. family urges change to children's organ transplant policy

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Second U.S. family urges change to children's organ transplant policy

By Dan Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A second family has stepped forward in the public fight to change a donor-organ policy that places sick children younger than 12 years of age at the bottom of the adult transplant list, regardless of the severity of their illness. The mother of Javier Acosta, 11, who suffers from cystic fibrosis and needs a lung transplant, urged policymakers on Saturday to adopt new rules to make a life-saving adult lung more readily available to her gravely ill son. ...

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