Forty-four percent of blood given to children harmful

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Cleveland student could help save the lives of infants

The very "grown up" medical research project of a Cleveland high school student could help change the lives of the tiniest of babies. Now a freshman at Johns Hopkins University, Allison Blatz began her research project when she was a junior at Mentor High School.

She believed blood given to low birth weight, premature babies, may actually cause them developmental disabilities, lower I.Q.'s, and hyperactivity...

Forty-four percent of the blood samples she tested had concentrations of materials harmful to children, especially babies.

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