Days after giving birth to twins, Lana Kuykendall was diagnosed with flesh-eating bacteria. She is now preparing to return home after more than 2 months of aggressive therapy. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen interviewed her and tells Anderson about Lana's incredible story of survival.
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Part two of a story about California’s history of forced sterilizations, and efforts by the remaining victims to receive reparations from the state. Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen investigates.
AC360's Elizabeth Cohen reports on California's history of forced sterilizations and its reluctance to pay reparations to the victims.
Elizabeth Cohen
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Kindra Arnesen's husband often calls while he's out on a shrimping trip, so she wasn't surprised to hear her cell phone ring the night of April 29 while he was on an overnight fishing expedition.
However, this time, her husband, David, wasn't calling to tell her about the day's catch or to wish their children Aleena and David Jr. a good night. He was calling to tell her he was sick, and the strange thing about it, so were men on the seven other shrimping boats working near his.
"I received several calls from him saying, 'This one's hanging over the boat throwing up. This one says he's dizzy, and he's feeling faint. Everybody's loading up their stuff, tying up their rigs and going back to the docks,'" Arnesen remembers.
Elizabeth Cohen
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
The latest health risk in the Gulf of Mexico is an abundance of money, says one Louisiana fisherman.
“Money,” says Clint Guidry, acting president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, “is killing us.”
BP is paying fishermen up to $3,000 a day to help clean up the oil, according to a contract between BP and one of the fishermen obtained by CNN.
He says the nine fishermen who were brought to the hospital while working for BP are unwilling to talk because they fear losing their jobs. The men suffered symptoms such as shortness of breath, irritated nasal passages, nausea and headaches.
Elizabeth Cohen | BIO
CNN Medical Correspondent
Elizabeth Cohen | BIO
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Last month, a Haitian couple awaits a DNA test to prove a baby flown to the U.S. after the earthquake is theirs. Tonight CNN Senior Medical Correspondent follows up on the story and is with the parents who will be reunited with their daughter. Don't miss their reunion tonight.
Elizabeth Cohen | BIO
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Haitian couple awaits a DNA test to prove a baby flown to the U.S. after the earthquake is theirs.
Drs. Hiba Georges and Roberto Feliz, both from the Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, talk to Elizabeth Cohen about the difficulties they encountered while trying to treat patients in Haiti.
Elizabeth Cohen | BIO
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Dr. Roberto Feliz and Dr. Hiba Georges were quickly jolted from the most modern of medical care in Boston, Massachusetts, to the most rudimentary of care when they flew to Haiti last week to work at a hospital housed in two tents run by the University of Miami.
The doctors, who worked at the Boston Medical Center, quickly learned that when you have no technology - not even the simplest blood test - you have to make medical decisions in an entirely different way.
The first death they witnessed taught them a valuable lesson.
The patient was a boy who needed his leg amputated or else he would die of either an infection or rhabdomyolysis, a kidney disease that follows injuries where muscles are crushed.
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