Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where Patience is still fighting for her life, sees a dozen cases a year of this rare defect, called a congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

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The medical science community still holds on to the belief that caves lack the amount of life needed for organisms to produce antibiotics.

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They still enjoy a good life, helped by cheap domestic help and first-class private medical care and schools.

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