David Phillip Vetter, the "Bubble Boy," left a deep mark on a world he visited only briefly. The bubble that kept him safe from the germs that could ravage his immunodeficient body proved to be a ...

Space race advances in technology benefited David Vetter throughout his short life. In fact, NASA engineers had built the isolators that kept the young boy's ... his plastic bubble for the ...

April: A healthy baby girl, Katherine Vetter ... He will continue to visit David regularly. The ABC television network airs Boy in the Plastic Bubble, starring John Travolta as a teenager ...

Being kept in an isolator bubble for his health held risks for David Vetter's cognitive development ... Being a smart, articulate boy, David was able to cover up many of his perceptual confusions ...

Caring for any infant or child has its challenges without having to handle him with rubber gloves through a plastic bubble ... a doll for two weeks before David Vetter was born.

Katherine Vetter was almost four years old when ... Katherine slept in the living room next to the bubble every night David was at home, until she became an adolescent. When strangers gawked ...

Russell Malinak, delivered David Phillip Vetter into his first isolator bubble. Unfortunately ... She befriended the boy and spent more of her personal time with him, often working on her thesis ...

That patient was David Vetter, whose life later became the inspiration for the 1976 TV movie “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” starring John Travolta. Montgomery was a key member of Vetter’s medical ...

Space race advances in technology benefited David Vetter throughout his short life. In fact, NASA engineers had built the isolators that kept the young boy's ... his plastic bubble for the ...