Local doctors global leaders in treatment for rare disease; Fallbrook Village Rotary Club spearheads fundraising efforts

Barely known fact: Mitochondria make up 15 percent of our body weight and mitochondrial disease affects 1 in 2,000 infants and children each year, with a mortality rate as high as 50 percent. This little-known disease can lay dormant until adulthood, when the afflicted often become disabled and die. Furthermore, mitochondria have been linked to Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, cancer, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

Little-known fact: Over the past decade, a team of internationally recognized doctors, talented researchers and ded...