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Stent designed for babies and young kids shows preliminary success
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You wouldn't know it by looking at him, but 4-year-old Jake Schumacher was born with serious heart defects.
After cardiac surgery when he was just 5 months old, he needed another procedure to place a stent to improve blood flow through the heart.
"It was pretty hard, because I just kept thinking, 'Why my son?'" his father, Craig Schumacher, said of learning of his son's diagnosis in an exclusive interview with CBS News.
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As vaccination rates decline, widespread outbreaks of diseases like measles and polio could reemerge
Health officials in western Texas are trying to contain a measles outbreak among mostly school-aged children, with at least 15 confirmed cases. It's the latest outbreak of a disease that had been virtually eliminated in the U.S., and it comes as vaccination rates are declining — jeopardizing the country's herd immunity from widespread outbreaks.