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Factor VII

The Sun investigates the drug known as Recombinant Activated Factor VII. American military doctors in Iraq have injected more than 1,000 of the war's wounded troops with the potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug despite mounting medical evidence linking it to deadly blood clots that lodge in the lungs, heart and brain.

Medevac crew members carry Pfc. Caleb A. Lufkin to the Army's 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad for treatment of severe injuries suffered in the explosion of a bomb. (Sun photo by Monica Lopossay / May 4, 2006)

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Dangerous remedy

Reporter Robert Little, a native Baltimorean, has worked at The Sun for eight years. He has concentrated recently on military medical issues, including articles last year about the Army's failure to equip troops with inexpensive, life-saving tourniquets.

Photographer Monica Lopossay, a native of Durham, N.C., has been with The Sun for five years. Her previous work includes the "If I Die" series, the story of R.J. Voigt and the process of end-of-life care for terminally ill children.

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Where blood clots form

February 20, 2007

Sun reporter wins Polk Award

A series of articles about an experimental drug used on U.S. service members in Iraq has earned a George Polk Award for Sun national correspondent Robert Little.