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This study develops and validates a multivariable prediction model to rank order adult heart transplant candidates by medical urgency.

A new method of donor-lung distribution is projected to decrease the number of candidate deaths who are on the waitlist for lung transplant, according to a study by Cleveland Clinic and the U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) published in The American Journal of Transplantation.

Allocation score, they will still get their lungs first. its just now sarah will have an opportunity to not have to wait for every adult, no matter what their score is, to pass the lung and then it be offered to the pediatric patients. >> do you have any sense of what her chances of getting a donation are in the next ten days? >> at the -- thats a tricky question. because obviously for sarah to get the opportunity to have the gift of life here, another family has to go through what would be prob...

And then it be offered to the pediatric patients. >> do you have any sense of what her chances of getting a donation are in the next ten days? >> at the -- thats a tricky question. because obviously for sarah to get the opportunity to have the gift of life here, another family has to go through what would be probably their worst day in their life. so its impossible to really tell. what we do know is, over the last 18 months, weve gotten to know a lot of individuals across the nation who have had...

To change the guidelines. also senator bob casey from pennsylvania writing a letter to secretary sebelius asking for clarification on the current policy on lung allocation and whether or not its unfair to children under the age of 12. many in the medical community say the story is another important reminder of how more organ donors are needed, not just for children but for adults as well. erin? >> thanks very much, jason carroll. the human face on something, you may think about and statistics. b...

Sent in prayers for you? >> yes. >> what do you think of that? >> thank you for saying prayers. >> and, erin, pennsylvania lawmakers now weighing in on the issue. senator pat toomey from pennsylvania saying today he does believe that secretary sebelius does have the authority to change the guidelines. also senator bob casey from pennsylvania writing a letter to secretary sebelius asking for clarification on the current policy on lung allocation and whether or not its unfair to children under the...

Policy on lung allocation and whether or not its unfair to children under the age of 12. many in the medical community say the story is another important reminder of how more organ donors are needed, not just for children but for adults as well. erin? >> thanks very much, jason carroll. the human face on something, you may think about and statistics. but its about lives. still to come, can your iphone be hacked through your charger? apparently a new and rather frightening risk. we have a rev...

Senior medical student elizabeth cohen is working it for us. what are you finding out here? >> lets take a step back and talk about sarahs situation. the reason why as you said wolf she has a slim chance of getting a lung is that she is a child. there arent a lot of pediatric lungs out there for transplants. and so what her parents want is to put her on a list for an adult transplant and that lung would be modified to fit her smaller frame. thats possible but heres the hitch. she will be at the ...

>> i dont know. pretty hard to get up there. we have a heartbreaking update for you about a little girl trying to beat end stage cystic fibrosis. they are refusing to change their bopolicy and allow the 10-year-old to get on the adult transplant list instead she is on the child transplant list because she is not 12 years old. a lung transplant from a child donor is much more rare. without new lungs she will die within weeks. the board claims the policy is in place because they cant measure for t...