New screen offers hope for copper deficiency sufferers

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 01:21 in Health & Medicine

Copper deficiency diseases can be devastating. Symptoms can range from crippling neurological degeneration in Menkes disease - a classic copper deficiency disease - to brittle bones, anaemia and defective skin pigmentation in gastric bypass patients. Unfortunately, very little is known about how the body uses this essential nutrient.

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