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The Biden administration is sending 44 medical personnel from the U.S. military to support two hospital systems in the state of Michigan, state officials said Wednesday.The U.S. Department of Defense will send two medical teams, each comprising 22 doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists, who are expected to arrive next week, according to a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services news release.The teams will assist health care workers at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn and Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids in dealing with the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the state, as hospitals across Michigan suffer from a lack of...

Lifesaving Stem Cell Procedure Halted by US Agency Dwayne Hunter Betterhumans Staff Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 11:25:09 AM CT A promising stem cell treatment has successfully repaired the severely damaged heart of a US teenager, but a government agency has told doctors to stop performing it.In February of this year, 16-year-old Dimitri Bonnville of Almont, Michigan was shot in the heart by a nail gun while working on a construction site.Bonnville suffered a massive heart attack that destroyed about one-third of his muscle cells when doctors from Beaumont hospital removed a three-inch-long nail from his heart.Doctors quickly determined that...