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Susan Sheridan recalls frantically racing her days-old son to doctor after doctor because his skin was so yellow _ only to be assured that jaundice is a rite of infancy. But as pediatricians looked on, the baby's neck suddenly arched backward and he began a strangely high- pitched, catlike howl.

"We all watched Cal suffer brain damage before our eyes," says Sheridan.

Jaundice strikes 60 percent of newborns as their livers slowly begin functioning in the first days of life. The vast majority recover easily. But a small ...

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