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Austin Wade – Intracerebral hemorrhage

By all appearances, Austin had a normal birth. But a few weeks after he suffered a serious brain bleed. He had missed a Vitamin-K shot at birth. In this video we caught up with Austin and his mother at home in the US a year after stem cell treatment in China.

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