Lorenzo’s Oil

Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a rare and terrible disease. A faulty X-chromosome lets very-long-chain fatty acids accumulate, and cripple the body. They eat away at the myelin sheath which insulates the nervous system. The victims—mostly boys—become mute, deaf, blind and paralysed. Then they die, often by choking on their own saliva. ALD is incurable, and until it struck Lorenzo Odone, the precocious young son...

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