Rare Liver Transplant Offers Hope

December 2, 2007 By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Kimberly Lindsey marvels that her 3-year-old son Merrick doesn't need to take 10 different medicines anymore. He can safely frolic on the playground among the germs that lurk there.

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