<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - baby-andrei</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/baby-andrei</link><description>Newsvine - baby-andrei</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:37:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:18:19 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Romanian baby born with stunted intestines dies</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Romanian baby born with virtually no intestines who confounded doctors by tenaciously clinging to life and captured international attention and offers of medical help, died on Thursday. He was nine months old.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alison Mutler]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alison Mutler]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/10/11637581-romanian-baby-born-with-stunted-intestines-dies</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/10/11637581-romanian-baby-born-with-stunted-intestines-dies</guid><category>eu</category><category>obit</category><category>romania</category><category>health</category><category>world-news</category><category>andrei</category><category>baby-andrei</category><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:10:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=adfa390a-1461-4ca7-b394-633fc8d9fb91.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="303" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=adfa390a-1461-4ca7-b394-633fc8d9fb91.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this March 27, 2012 file photo shows Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, the son of Roma under-age parents, in the arms of a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children's hospital Bucharest, Romania. Andrei, a Romanian baby born with virtually no intestines who confounded doctors by clinging to life and captured international attention for his fighting spirit, has died, on Thursday, May 10, 2012. He was nine months old. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6fe829ba-5041-4361-ab63-b980fcde9111.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6fe829ba-5041-4361-ab63-b980fcde9111.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this March 27, 2012 file photo which shows Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, the son of Roma under-age parents, in an intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children's hospital Bucharest, Romania. Andrei, a Romanian baby born with virtually no intestines who confounded doctors by clinging to life and captured international attention for his fighting spirit, has died. He was nine months old. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Hope for Romania baby born with stunted intestines</title>
<description><![CDATA[Baby Andrei has confounded doctors just by being alive: The tiny boy with twig-thin limbs was given just days to live when he was born with almost no intestines &#8212; eight months ago.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alison Mutler]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alison Mutler]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/05/11037268-hope-for-romania-baby-born-with-stunted-intestines</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/05/11037268-hope-for-romania-baby-born-with-stunted-intestines</guid><category>eu</category><category>romania</category><category>health</category><category>andrei</category><category>baby-andrei</category><pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/93f2e5cc-7bef-4add-9521-bf4a7eca9ec4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/93f2e5cc-7bef-4add-9521-bf4a7eca9ec4.jpg" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, son of Roma underage parents, cries after being put back in an incubator at the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children's hospital, on March 27, 2012, in Bucharest, Romania. Andrei, who, against all odds, survived for eight months with almost no intestines, needs a transplant that costs hundreds of thousands dollars and can only be performed in the United States at his age.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6c119361-d7f1-46ca-9d1b-06e5b3411782.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6c119361-d7f1-46ca-9d1b-06e5b3411782.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This March 27, 2012 file photo shows Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, the son of Roma under-age parents, in the arms of a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children's hospital Bucharest, Romania. Baby Andrei was born with almost no intestines, and has confounded medical opinion by still being alive, and even kicking, 8 months later. Now there's hope for another miracle. The Romanian infant has received offers for a complicated intestine transplant, an operation not performed on babies in Europe, from Harvard and Boston, said the Romanian pediatrician who is in charge of caring for Andrei. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/d8ad34df-87b3-448e-92a2-1a9d0cbbc130.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/d8ad34df-87b3-448e-92a2-1a9d0cbbc130.jpg" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This March 27, 2012 file photo shows Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, the son of Roma under-age parents, in the arms of a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children's hospital Bucharest, Romania. Baby Andrei was born with almost no intestines, and has confounded medical opinion by still being alive, and even kicking, 8 months later. Now there's hope for another miracle. The Romanian infant has received offers for a complicated intestine transplant, an operation not performed on babies in Europe, from Harvard and Boston, said the Romanian pediatrician who is in charge of caring for Andrei. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/50dd9287-9333-46d2-89b7-5c0fa50b92ef.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="278" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/50dd9287-9333-46d2-89b7-5c0fa50b92ef.jpg" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This March 27, 2012 file photo shows Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, the son of Roma under-age parents, in the arms of a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children's hospital Bucharest, Romania. Baby Andrei was born with almost no intestines, and has confounded medical opinion by still being alive, and even kicking, 8 months later. Now there's hope for another miracle. The Romanian infant has received offers for a complicated intestine transplant, an operation not performed on babies in Europe, from Harvard and Boston, said the Romanian pediatrician who is in charge of caring for Andrei. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/89b3abed-b012-4c12-8318-52fe57e74df0.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="295" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/89b3abed-b012-4c12-8318-52fe57e74df0.jpg" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This is a March 27, 2012 file photo  of baby Andrei, eight months old, son of Roma underage parents as he is held by a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children's hospital,  in Bucharest, Romania. Baby Andrei was born with almost no intestines, and has confounded medical opinion by still being alive, and even kicking, 8 months later. Now there's hope for another miracle. The Romanian infant has received offers for a complicated intestine transplant, an operation not performed on babies in Europe, from Harvard and Boston, said the Romanian pediatrician who is in charge of caring for Andrei. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c34e320d-e004-43fe-98ab-c8f5bc0cf8b4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="366" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c34e320d-e004-43fe-98ab-c8f5bc0cf8b4.jpg" width="120" height="168" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This March 27, 2012 file photo shows Baby Andrei, eight-month-old, the son of Roma under-age parents, in the arms of a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Marie Curie children's hospital Bucharest, Romania. Baby Andrei was born with almost no intestines, and has confounded medical opinion by still being alive, and even kicking, 8 months later. Now there's hope for another miracle. The Romanian infant has received offers for a complicated intestine transplant, an operation not performed on babies in Europe, from Harvard and Boston, said the Romanian pediatrician who is in charge of caring for Andrei. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>