Research backs ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ treatment of disease
Early detection called key to effectiveness
By Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff | July 12, 2005
New research offers scientific vindication for the parents whose fight to save their ailing son inspired the 1992 movie ”Lorenzo’s Oil.” It comes too late to help the real-life Lorenzo, who is nearly totally paralyzed, but suggests that the oil could help save future generations of boys from the same, fatal nerve disorder.
The paper, published yesterday in the Archives of Neurology, found that the oil was often effective at fending off symptoms in young boys who had the genetic disease that has devastated Lorenzo Odone. Among the 89 boys who started taking the oil before symptoms appeared, only 11 percent went on to develop them, compared with the usual 35 percent.
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