Girl, 2, is first child to receive artificial windpipe

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 12:31 in Health & Medicine

At 2 1/2 years old, Hannah Warren has never played outside with her big sister or run through the grass on a sunny day.The Korean girl has been unable to breathe, talk, eat or drink on her own since she was born without a windpipe. The rare congenital condition kept her hospitalized for her entire life in a Seoul neonatal intensive care unit, where a tube from her mouth to her lung kept her alive....    

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