Transplant vote seeks medical and legal balance

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FILE - In this May 30, 2013 file photo provided by the Murnaghan family, Sarah Murnaghan, center, celebrates the 100th day of her stay in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with her father, Fran, left, and mother, Janet. The national organization that manages organ transplants on Monday June 10, 2013 resisted making emergency rule changes for children under 12 who are waiting on lungs but created a special appeal and review system to hear such cases. (AP Photo/Murnaghan Family, File)PITTSBURGH (AP) — Faced with a federal judge's order in the heart-wrenching cases of two terminally ill children seeking lung transplants, a national review board sought a balance that will keep such decisions in the hands of doctors, not lawyers or judges.

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