New drug holds out promise of normal diet for sufferers of devastating PKU genetic disease
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 13:28
in Biology & Nature
Imagine being forced to say no to a child crying for more food at supper. Sadly, Margie Fischer doesn't have to imagine it; that was normal life at her family's dinner table for years. Her daughter Maggie, now 20, suffers from phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic disease that means her body can't tolerate anything more than a low-protein diet.