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News items on 'Inborn Errors Of Metabolism'

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Appeal over baby's right to life

(BBC 20/03/2009)

Parents battling to keep their seriously ill baby alive have failed to overturn a ruling allowing him to die. The nine-month-old boy has a rare metabolic disorder and has suffered brain damage and respiratory failure. The couple had appealed against a judge's ruling on Thursday that it was in the boy's best interests to withdraw his "life sustaining treatment".

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