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Chief Medical Correspondent, CBS Evening News. Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center. Happily married father of two
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RT @CBSEveningNews: .@DrLaPook reports on the decision by the @AmerMedicalAssn to declare obesity a disease #EveNews
For child cancer survivors, treatment comes at a cost cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162… via @CBSNews
For child cancer survivors, treatment comes at a cost
cbsnews.com — (CBS News) There are almost 400,000 survivors of childhood cancer in the United States and most are expected to live until adulthood. But toxic treatment comes with a price, including serious medical problems for most patients years down the road. Now the most comprehensive study of its kind has found that many problems go undetected.
@CBSEveningNews tonight. Children treated for cancer often develop medical problems years later and are unware of them.
@CBSEveningNews ten-year-old Sarah is now out of surgery after her lung transplantation. The next few days will be crucial.
@CBSEveningNews tonight. Terrific news for 10 year old girl in desperate need of a lung transplant.A donor lung arrived & she is in surgery.
RT @RachelWeintraub: look at how happy @DrLaPook the photographer is. well done. amazing shots of Secretariat. #TripleCrown
RT @CBSThisMorning: Dr. LaPook (@DrLaPook) then and now. 40 years ago he watched as Secretariat won the Triple Crown. Photo: http://t.co/7j…
CBSThisMorning: Dr. LaPook (@DrLaPook) then ...
twitter.com — Dr. LaPook (@DrLaPook) then and now. 40 years ago he watched as Secretariat won the Triple Crown. Photo: pic.twitter.com/7jeuIbkjCV
@CBSThisMorning @charlierose @NorahODonnell @GayleKing Tomorrow am, can't wait to show u #Secretariat pix I took at the Belmont 40 years ago
Judge's ruling enables girl to get life-saving lung transplant cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162… via @CBSNews
Judge's ruling enables girl to get life-saving lung transplant
cbsnews.com — (CBS News) In Philadelphia Wednesday, a federal judge cleared the way for a dying girl to get a lung transplant that could save her life. Ten-year-old Sarah Murnaghan has end-stage cystic fibrosis. Doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told her mother Janet that a lung transplant is her only chance of survival.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover and more.
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