2-for-1 liver transplant saves two
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070319/ap_on_he_me/healthbeat_split_livers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070319/capt.wx10403191507.healthbeat_split_livers_wx104.jpg?x=89&y=130&sig=l2eKN8rswG0vLXl9zMkrDQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="Twenty one-year-old Maggie Catherwood, of Sterling, Va., left, holds eight-month-old Allison Brown, of Waldorf, Md., as the two recover from their recent liver transplant, Monday, March 12, 2007, at Georgetown Hospital in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)" border="0" /></a>AP - The transplant surgeon had good news: A donated liver was on the way for critically ill Maggie Catherwood. Then he asked: Would she let doctors cut off part of her new liver to share with an equally sick baby?</p><br clear="all"/>

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