Airman injured in Afghanistan gets a remote pancreas fix

The serviceman becomes a pioneer in islet-cell transplantation when his pancreas is shuttled between Washington and Miami for the procedure. Six days before Thanksgiving, Air Force Senior Airman Tre Francesco Porfirio was pulling duty in Afghanistan when three high-velocity bullets tore through his pancreas -- the fist-size organ that produces insulin and enzymes needed to extract fuel from food.

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