If a baby seems normal at birth but soon appears listless, fails to gain weight, and suffers from jaundice, vomiting and diarrhea, his mother can hardly be expected to know that he may lack the enzyme ...

Metabolic disorders in babies affect how infants digest food and convert it into fuel for the body. These infants may lack certain digestive enzymes that allow people to use certain nutrients. As a ...

Co-corresponding authors Jian Xu,PhD, (left) and Min Ni, PhD, (right) and co-first authors Junhua Lyu, PhD, (center left) and Yuannyu Zhang, PhD, (center right) identified and characterized a ...

Metabolic disorders are conditions that affect any aspect of metabolism. Examples of metabolic disorders include diabetes, Gaucher’s disease, and hemochromatosis. Symptoms can include tiredness, ...

Though these health conditions are often diagnosed and treated separately, they are all fundamentally connected. These five risk factors share root causes, such as poor diet and lack of physical ...

It’s mid-afternoon. You’re battling a slump, reaching for that second cup of coffee, maybe eyeing the office chocolate stash. You snap at a colleague, blame it on “just a bad day,” and chalk the ...