Health Check
WDBJ-7 TV (CBS Affiliate, Roanoke)
6 p.m. News, July 20, 2003

[Health-Review]
[ANCHOR=Teresa]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=Health Check II tc 1:49:32]
[GRAPHIC=Health Review]
No need to spend hours in the gym to see results, and a local boy will soon make history for his involvement with an experimental treatment. Joy Sutton has more in this week's Health Review.
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[IN Q=13 year old Jordan Fifer will soon become]
[SUPER=07-Jordan Fifer; :12]
[SUPER=01-Dr. Michael Hart/Carilion Pediatric Gastroenterology; :31]
[SUPER=01-Doug Call/Virginia Prosthetics; :53]
[SUPER=07-Ricky Brown; 1:18]
[SUPER=01-Karen Carpenter/New Fitness Owner; 1:35]
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[OUT Q=That's Health Review]
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13 year old Jordan Fifer will soon become the youngest patient in the nation to get a stem cell transplant for crohn's disease.
The experimental treatment could mean a life free of the inflammatory bowel disease.
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((I GET USE TO THINGS LIKE CRAMPING AND TAKING PILLS A LOT AND I NEVER KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN THAT DAY)) [RUNS06]
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The stem cell transplant works by essentially giving Jordan a new immune system. So far the treatment has been tried on several young adults.
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[IN Q=As of this moment]
((AS OF THIS MOMENT THESE CHILDREN ARE OFF THEIR MEDICATION WITHOUT COMPLICATIONS AND EATING A REGULAR DIET. IT IS TRULY REMARKABLE))
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[OUT Q=truly remarkable]
Jordan is scheduled to have the stem cell transplant the end of this month at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
[TAPE#=502-11 57:31]