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  1. This April 12 2006 picture shows Hannah Clark, of Cardiff Wales, who has made a full recovery after she given an extra heart at the age of two. Hannah had a donor heart grafted on to her own after suffering heart failure as a baby. After 10 years with two hearts, Hannah Clark's heart did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donor heart. Details of Clark's revolutionary transplant and follow-up were published online Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in the medical journal, Lancet. (AP Photo/Barry Batchelor, PA)
    British girl's heart heals itself after transplant AP - Tue Jul 14, 9:37 PM ET

    LONDON - British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.

  2. Local residents, schoolchildren and Health Ministry authorities launch a campaign to prevent the spread of the infection by influenza A(H1N1) virus at a primary school in Luque, Paraguay on July 11. The pandemic has grown "unstoppable" and all nations will need access to vaccines, a WHO official has said, as 12 new deaths were reported and a study raised fresh concerns.(AFP/File/Norberto Duarte)
    Study: 1918 flu survivors seem immune to swine flu AP - Mon Jul 13, 7:36 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The way swine flu multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than ordinary winter flu, a new study in animals finds.

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