One Recovered Life Turned Into More
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At one time in his life, Alvin Carpenter was spiritually bankrupt and addicted to drugs. Using dirty needles, he became infected with the AIDS virus. Seemingly helpless and hopeless, he was all but disowned by his family.
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A 17-year-old who survived in her car for eight days after it crashed down a ravine has returned home following a complex operation. Her doctors say she should make a full recovery within months.
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Twin boys who were surgically separated three weeks ago have recovered well enough to be transferred next week to another hospital for rehabilitation.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.
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It was a simple game of catch. It was an affirmation of life, and healing.
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A convicted murderer who escaped from prison guards during a hospital appointment is recaptured.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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After a tormented existence as a father, a husband, a Coast Guardsman, and a construction worker, a 57-year-old suburban Boston man underwent a sex-change operation. And then she wrote off the $25,000 in medical expenses on her taxes.
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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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A 16-year-old leukaemia patient foregoes further treatment so she can enjoy what is left of her life.
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A year and a half after receiving the world's first partial face transplant, Isabelle Dinoire said the operation has given her a normal life again, though she felt a part of her identity has disappeared.
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Four years after he entered a drug rehabilitation center, Robert Garrigus is able to reflect on past drug and alcohol abuse.
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A comic book hero mounts a comeback in the footsteps of many others.
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unable to pull off a second miracle for his sister, but some small signs of normal life have returned to the quake-hit region. Minagawa, though they had detected no signs of life.
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Four weeks after killer waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, a lone tsunami survivor was rescued from a remote island, a rare moment of hope among countless tales of grief and loss.
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One passenger being treated in hospital for lacerations to his arm and back after the rail crash tells his story.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Four weeks after killer  waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, a lone  tsunami survivor was rescued from a remote island, a rare  moment of hope among countless tales of grief and loss.