He ate, played and learned like any other kid. But David Vetter’s life unfolded in a series of unusual environments: plastic, bubblelike enclosures that protected him from germs. He had severe ...

HOUSTON — Tuesday marked a milestone birthday for a boy who has saved countless lives through his own battle. David Vetter would've turned 50 years old Tuesday. Most knew him as the boy who lived in a ...

He came to UAB from Baylor University, where in 1971 he assisted in the implementation of the first germ-free environmental bubble in the United States for a patient born with severe combined ...

On February 22, 1984, Carol Ann Vetter touched her 12-year-old son's hand for the first time. David Vetter had spent his entire life inside a sterile isolator, with a protective layer of plastic ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- David Vetter, better known as the "Bubble Boy," left a legacy that has impacted health care procedures, especially in those with similar compromised immunities. David, who was ...

The first experimental matched bone marrow transplants successfully treat immunodeficient patients. In both cases the matches are between identical twins. April: A healthy baby girl, Katherine Vetter, ...

Disney's upcoming movie "Bubble Boy," promoted as a gag-a-minute comedy about a bumbling teenager who lives in a plastic bubble to avoid illness, ends with a disclaimer saying that the story is pure ...

Researchers from Nijmegen and Newcastle discovered a new genetic mutation leading to severe combined immune deficiency disorder (SCID). It’s the first time a mutation in the proteasome, a molecular ...

Dr. William Shearer, who treated the so-called bubble boy — a youngster isolated from birth in sterile plastic cocoons because he lacked a functioning immune system — through the last years of his ...

An experimental gene therapy developed to treat children born with a rare immunodeficiency disease has demonstrated extraordinary efficacy according to a new long-term follow-up study published in the ...