CBS8 NEWS: The Culver City 8th grader has been staying with his family at the Ronald McDonald house in San Diego for the past few months since the surgery.
TODAY: Lindzi Scharf's "feisty" 3-year-old daughter, Evan, loved wearing sunglasses. When the little girl died last year from mitochondrial disease, Scharf turned her favorite accessory into a piece of art.
Fortune: No one wants to find themselves sick or in need of a medical diagnosis. But there are those out there who already are—and are desperately seeking answers.
Babies with Fitz's condition, commonly known as "bubble boy disease," rarely survive to toddlerhood. He became one of the first babies anywhere to get a specific diagnosis within days of birth and an experimental therapy several months later that appears to have worked.
Project Baby Deer is allowing Bronson Children's Hospital to diagnose genetic disorders in as fast as 30 hours; something that used to take nearly 30 days.
