ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 12-year-old Oklahoma girl is the 500th young heart transplant recipient at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University Heart Center.

KEYPORT, N.J. (AP) — It started with a cough that would not go away.

"I was ignoring it," Dawn Burke said.

Then came two bouts of pneumonia, one month apart. Tests led to a stunning diagnosis: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), a disease that scars the lungs for unknown reasons.

Burke, a longtime Keyport resident, never smoked or had prolonged exposure to dangerous chemicals. Now she faced an irreversible, worsening condition. In September 2017, she joined the waiting list for a lung transplant.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz has serenaded a Kansas high school senior who is hospitalized in St. Louis while awaiting a second double-lung transplant.

HOUMA, La. (AP) — After receiving his second double lung transplant last year, just getting out of a chair took a lot out of Paul Thibodeaux.

His weight fell to 108 pounds and he was on oxygen 24 hours a day with 12-percent lung function.

Not only did the Thibodaux Police narcotics agent make a full recovery and return to duty in April he participated in the Donate Life Transplant Games of America, which were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, last month.

VIENNA (AP) — Three-time Formula One world champion Niki Lauda has undergone a lung transplant.

The Vienna General Hospital says the operation was performed Thursday because of a "serious lung illness." It didn't give more specific details in a brief statement and said the 69-year-old Austrian's family would make no public comment.

Lauda won the Formula One title in 1975, 1977 and 1984.

SENOIA, Ga. (AP) — Amy Majors can only move 50 feet within the confines of her Senoia home.

Although if the 33-year-old single mother woman stretches far enough, she can reach the carport, where she wistfully watches her young son Michael play outdoors.

Majors is tethered to an oxygen tank 24 hours a day, connected by a tube that is a thin lifeline between her existence and an almost certain death.

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — Following a second double lung transplant, a Thibodaux Police officer is back on duty.

After undergoing his first double lung transplant in 2015, Paul Thibodeaux thought he was on a road to recovery.

"I thought it went great," the 35-year-old law enforcement veteran said. "I was good for a while."

Then Thibodeaux's health took a turn for the worse at the end of January 2017 when he caught a virus.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Katelyn Strube-Bohaty remembers when her doctor first mentioned a double lung transplant.

She would probably have only a year to live without the transplant, she was told.

It was four years later before she decided to go ahead with the transplant. What drove her to the decision was a desire for a "fairytale wedding" and a life with her fiancé, she told The Wichita Eagle .

MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Danica Stockwell spent the majority of the first two and a half years of her life in hospitals. Medical personnel have been available to her. Now she is getting a donated flight to Houston so she can stay in the battle for her life.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A 4-year-old Mandan girl in need of a double lung transplant has landed in Houston, Texas with her parents thanks to private donors.

Danica Stockwell is unable to fly commercial because of her lung disease and weakened immune system and needed to be evaluated at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston before she can be placed on its transplant waiting list.

PLOVER, Wis. (AP) — A two-year-old boy from Plover has a new chance at life after undergoing a double lung transplant.

Family members say Roland Raabe was born with a rare lung disorder that required him to use a ventilator. The Raabe family temporarily moved to St. Louis where they expected to wait months for a donor. But, after seven weeks, the family received the phone call they were waiting for.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A man who was denied a lung transplant at the University of Utah because marijuana was found in his system has died after suffering complications from recent surgery.

Reports say 20-year-old Riley Hancey of Park City died Saturday from complications with his double lung transplant at the University of Pennsylvania hospital.

EXETER, N.H. (AP) — Blue-haired Angelique Sanborn has quite the support system. While Sanborn was in surgery receiving a double lung transplant in March, her family members each dyed a streak of their hair blue, to surprise her when she awoke in the ICU.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Caryn Durbin has gotten plenty of birthday presents in her lifetime, but picking the best one is easy.

The Joplin resident awoke at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis on Nov. 14, her 30th birthday, after a bilateral lung transplant surgery that began the day before to find she had received several gifts in one.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Banner-University Medical Center Tucson is once again certified to offer adult lung transplants.

The Arizona Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/2es6io1 ) that prior to the hospital's recent certification the closest place for Southern Arizona residents to receive lung transplants was Phoenix. The hospital resumed performing lung transplants in 2015, but needed to perform 10 operations to regain federal certification.

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lehi resident Steve Bailey went to the gym with his wife, Merity, to walk the track. For Steve, who has the genetic condition alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, even just going to the gym and having energy to walk was a marked difference from earlier months.

After doing some walking, Steve said he felt like he needed to run the last lap, something he hadn't done in five or six years since he started having difficulty breathing, a symptom of alpha-1.