ATLANTA, Sept.

Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) usually experience significant muscle loss, a symptom traditionally considered to be a secondary complication of the devastating genetic disease.

By Peter Popham High in the Italian Alps above the Venetian coast is a village where people do not fall ill. They eat red meat, they drink wine and grappa, many of them smoke, but the crippling, much-feared diseases of civilisation pass them by.

By Quinlivan, Julie A; Suriadi, Christine Abstract Objective. To evaluate new mothers' opinions of genetics and newborn screening. Setting. An Australian tertiary referral hospital. Population.

Liver transplants seem to be curing about a dozen children of a rare disease so unforgiving that the slightest dietary misstep can prove brain-damaging or even fatal.