Pennsylvania girl gets lung transplant after judge’s order

(Reuters) – A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl with cystic fibrosis, who only became eligible for an adult organ transplant because of a judge’s order, on Wednesday received a double-lung transplant from an adult donor, her family said. Sarah Murnaghan, who had been kept off an adult organ transplant list due to an age restriction prior to the judge’s ruling, was undergoing transplant surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said family spokeswoman Tracy Simon. The girl’s family, which lives in the Philadelphia suburb of Newtown Square, sued to prevent the U.S. …