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Show !i "" Test Time I 13,"f1 , CHILDREN WHOSE body chemistry has been distorted get highly personalized testing and care at the March of Dimes Metabolic Clinic at the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. Dr. Neil Buist, director, draws a blood sample I from Corey Kehm, 4, with help from March of Dimes volunteer, Mrs. Dora Calef. Corey and his brother Henry, 8, are being treated for vitamin D-resistant rickets, an inherited disorder that caused malformation of their legs. "Metabolic disorders, or inborn errors of metabolism, are dangerous birth defects i that may remain hidden, and thus untreated, for months or . years," Dr. Buist says. |