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...popular movie Lorenzo's Oil did more than tout a possible cure for a rare and fatal hereditary disease. Based on a true story, the 1992 film also vilified the medical establishment for being slow to accept the possibility that a combination of vegetable oils developed by Augusto and Michaela Odone might have improved the condition of their son Lorenzo, 14, who suffers from a degenerative nerve illness called adrenoleukodystrophy. Now a two-year study from France concludes that the remedy, named for the Odones' son, is worthless -- at least for the milder, adult form of the ailment. Writing...
Everyone agrees that Lorenzo's oil cuts down on the level of toxic compounds in the blood that are understood to cause the disease. But the oil cannot reverse nerve damage, often resulting in blindness and paralysis, that has already taken place. Nonetheless, Dr. Hugo Moser of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, believes Lorenzo's oil may delay the onset of symptoms. "We know that it's not 100% preventive," says Moser, who is conducting a five-year study of 80 boys who have inherited the gene for the disease but started taking Lorenzo's oil while they...
...Lorenzo's oil, the cinematically celebrated "cure" for adrenoleukodystroph y, a nervous-system disease, is worthless for adults suffering from the disorder, says new research...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: 1 -- A View from Above by Wilt Chamberlain; 2 -- The Man Who Wasn't Maigret by Patrick Marnham (published May 1993); 3 -- Don Giovanni libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte...
...latter group, ranging from Veronese, Tintoretto and Jacopo Bassano in Venice to Savoldo in Brescia and Dosso Dossi in Ferrara, is large, since Titian was one of the half a dozen or so most influential painters who ever lived. Among Venetian artists of the cinquecento, only Lorenzo Lotto, that great independent, resisted the pressure of his style...