Word: sternlieb
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Only recently have doctors been able to slow down Wilson's disease with drugs to leach copper out of the body, and a low-copper diet (no liver, mushrooms, nuts or oysters). How much better it would be, say Drs. Irmin Sternlieb and I. Herbert Scheinberg of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to spot the inherited defect before illness has time to develop...
Though it will take many years to determine whether the disease can be completely prevented, Drs. Sternlieb and Scheinberg have encouraging evidence from several patients. One boy from a Wilson's disease family was diagnosed as having the defect when he was only ten months old. He has been treated for eight years and is still well; his older sister, whose case was not diagnosed in time, became severely ill by age twelve...