内容摘要：Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here:

Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here:

In Newburgh, New York, an ambulance had raced Miller to the hospital after he collapsed, a mass in his brain. He never woke up from the biopsy, brain-dead at just 57. Next steps were up to his sister, his closest relative.Miller-Duffy asked about donating his organs but he didn’t qualify. That biopsy had found cancer.

Only then did the organ agency broach whole-body donation. Miller-Duffy wasn’t familiar with that, but the goal of improving kidney transplants, “that kind of struck a chord.” Another brother had died of kidney disease as a toddler. Other relatives have kidney-damaging illnesses or even died on dialysis.Flipping through family photos, Miller-Duffy recalled how her brother would adopt animals and once took care of a terminally ill friend. Still, she had questions.This family photo provided in August 2023 shows siblings Maurice “Mo” Miller, left, and Mary Miller-Duffy as children playing with their Christmas gifts. (Courtesy Mary Miller-Duffy via AP)

This family photo provided in August 2023 shows siblings Maurice “Mo” Miller, left, and Mary Miller-Duffy as children playing with their Christmas gifts. (Courtesy Mary Miller-Duffy via AP)In a video call, Montgomery explained the pig transplant to Miller-Duffy and her wife, Sue Duffy — and why it could make a difference. Montgomery’s compassion won them over.

“His body is not being hurt, you know,” Duffy said. “It’s just an incubation for the study to be done.”

The experiment served as a rehearsal for one day operating in a living patient. Montgomery finished removing Miller’s own kidneys as a helicopter headed for the hospital’s riverside landing pad. Drs. Jeffrey Stern and Adam Griesemer, fellow NYU surgeons, raced in kidneys they’d removed from a pig bred by Blacksburg, Virginia-based Revivicor.The lawsuit filed April 1

sought to immediately halt, alleging that it would decimate public health infrastructure across the country. The money, allocated by Congress during the pandemic, supported COVID-19 initiatives and

The federal government argued that because the pandemic is over, the states no longer need the money. But McElroy, who granted a temporary restraining order last month in the case, wrote in her decision that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services doesn’t have the power to decide that money isn’t necessary anymore.She went on to say that the agency ignored multiple requirements that govern how block grant programs are terminated, calling the federal government’s argument for how it handled the situation “puzzling.”