James William Lazarro was the picture of health, a strapping baby boy and a welcome future playmate for his older brother Sam. But when James was just eight months old, he suddenly stopped breathing one morning and died. But after a little sleuthing Tom and Jamie Lazarro discovered that their son had a rare genetic disorder that left him unable to absorb fat, reports CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin. We were angry. It involves a pin prick on a newborn baby's heel.
Blood is collected, dried on a postcard, and sent off for analysis called tandem mass spectrometry.
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