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Doctors print up 3-D splint for baby's blocked throat

Kaiba Gionfriddo was only a few months old when he began turning blue again and again as his little airways collapsed and kept air from reaching his lungs. But doctors were able to use a device based on an inkjet printer to custom-make a splint that is holding his airway open and helping him breathe. Now the 19-month-old is “into everything”, says his mother.

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Some H1N1 vaccine doses recalled

  Dec. 15: Health officials are recalling 800,000 doses of H1N1 shots. The doses are for kids 6 months up to age 3.

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Joe Francis: 'Retarded' jury should be 'shot dead'

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has some choice words for the jury who found him guilty of falsely imprisoning three women in his California home. They're "mentally retarded" "stupid idiots" who are "jealous" of him and should be "put in jail" or even "lined up and shot," or so Francis told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview.

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