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Michael Jackson Alpha-1 reports lead to interviews with Alpha-1 doctors explaining the condition to a wider audience

News reports claiming that pop singer Michael Jackson has severe lung disease due to Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency have led to media interviews with prominent physicians, describing and clarifying Alpha-1.

An interview with Jeffrey Teckman, MD, of the St. Louis University School of Medicine, the doctor who answers questions about Alpha-1 related liver disease on the Alpha-1 Foundation’s liver page, was carried online by ZAMP Bionews.

Dr. Teckman’s online interview is here

Our website liver section, with Dr. Tecknan’s answers to questions, is here

Meanwhile, Scientific American magazine interviewed James Stoller, MD, of the Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and a member of the Alpha-1 Foundation’s Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee, about Alpha-1:

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