Celiac disease in the news

I found this fascinating - I paid only minimal attention to the drama about baseball player Roger Clemens and his trainer Brian McNamee, but I perked up when I heard repeated references to McNamee's son, who is suffering from a "serious autoimmune disorder." Turns out, it's celiac disease.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17894645

McNamee said those words, or a close variation, 21 times. No matter whether McNamee's tone was angry or pleading, whether he was talking about his ailing 10-year-old son or offering to go to jail . . .

http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition/la-sp-clemens8jan08,1,2779347.story

After the report was issued, McNamee and Clemens did not speak until Friday, after McNamee sent a text message saying he wanted to talk and that his 10-year-old son was seriously ill. Hardin said the conversation could be taped without McNamee's consent under the law in Texas, where Clemens lives, and New York, where McNamee lives. Hardin played the 17-minute conversation -- which opens with a brief discussion about McNamee's son and then shifts to the steroid allegations -- in the news conference. "It shows how cynical and disgusting Roger Clemens and Rusty Hardin are," Emery [lawyer for McNamee] said, "that they'd exploit a sick child of Brian's."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/10/SPTVUC1AS.DTL

Mr. Clemens blew you out of the water with his phone call to his former trainer, Brian McNamee, whose son is gravely ill. "He said his son was sick and dying," Clemens said. "That's why I reached out."

Dying? From celiac disease?