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		<title>In Carlsbad, Parents Of Cancer Patients Plead For Answers</title>
		<link>http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/2010/05/30/in-carlsbad-parents-of-cancer-patients-plead-for-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 07:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josie Kopecky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people who live in Carlsbad suspect that toxins in the ground, water and air are causing cancer and other illnesses. Desperate for answers, they’re calling for environmental tests.
A growing list of sick and dying children has left some people in Carlsbad on edge. Six-year-old Kelsey Devich died of leukemia in 2005. Seventeen-year-old Michelle Butler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will I inherit Alzheimer&#8217;s disease if my parent has it?</title>
		<link>http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/2010/04/21/will-i-inherit-alzheimers-disease-if-my-parent-has-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists don’t yet fully understand what causes Alzheimer’s disease (AD). There is some concern about the earlier-onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (typically onset between 30 and 60 years of age. See www.nih.gov for further details.) &#8220;running in families.&#8221; According to the National Institutes of Health, some cases of early-onset AD, called familial AD (FAD), are inherited. Read more.
Related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers discover weak link in Alzheimer&#8217;s drug candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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Some current therapies being investigated for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease may cause further neural degeneration and cell death, according to a breakthrough discovery by UC San Diego researchers.
 
By combining three dimensional computer simulations with high resolutionatomic force microscopy membrane protein and cell imaging, electrical recording and various cellular assays, UCSD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight to Cure Alzheimer&#8217;s : Drinks, Pills and more Drinks&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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Recently, two studies were published regarding  aids to help slow down the destructive process of Dementia. I wrote about one of them last year when I interviewed a local research company called Synergy Research about their Alzheimer&#8217;s studies.
&#8220;The Medical Food&#8221;
It&#8217;s called Souvenaid and it&#8217;s something you may soon find next to Ensure at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists remove amyloid plaques from brains of live animals with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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Scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville FL, made a breakthrough discovery recently, in the new treatment for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease. The treatment actually removes amyloid plaques from patients&#8217; brains. This was published on the FASEB Journal &#8212; the finding shows that when the brain&#8217;s immune cells are activated by the interleukin-6 protein (IL-6), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NFL and Alzheimers</title>
		<link>http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/2009/11/11/nfl-and-alzheimers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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If there is one thing I love, it is NFL football. I&#8217;ve watched it since childhood and my husband happens to be a football fanatic for both college and the NFL, so my love for it has only grown. But one interesting and saddening fact I learned recently, is that Alzheimers has affected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vitamin B12 Deficiency Damaging to the Elderly</title>
		<link>http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/2009/10/29/vitamin-b12-deficiency-damaging-to-the-elderly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benny</dc:creator>
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by Benny Arce
What is Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 is a water-soluble vitamin found naturally in some foods such as meat, liver, fish, shellfish, poultry, eggs, milk, and cheese. They can also be artificially added to soy products and some breakfast cereals. And of course they can also come as vitamin supplements.
Vitamin B12 plays an important role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Patch &#8211; Exelon (rivastigmine transdermal system)</title>
		<link>http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/2009/10/14/alzheimers-patch-exelon-rivastigmine-transdermal-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Broyles</dc:creator>
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by Rose Broyles
You&#8217;ve heard of the nicotine patch for smokers, the birth control patch (now taken off the market due to serious and deadly side effects ), and now there is a patch for Alzheimer&#8217;s.
Excelon Patch
This is the first and only patch  used for people with mild-moderate forms of dementia,  both Parkinson&#8217;s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dementia Expanding Worldwide at an Alarming Rate</title>
		<link>http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/2009/10/09/dementia-expanding-worldwide-at-an-alarming-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benny</dc:creator>
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by Benny Arce
Current Period
Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease International (ADI), headed by Dr. Daisy Acosta, released a World Alzheimer Report indicating that there are over 35 million dementia cases all over the world.
The latest figures are an update of a report by British researchers in 2005 where they estimated worldwide dementia at the time at 24 million. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nutrition for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Patients</title>
		<link>http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/2009/10/07/nutrition-for-alzheimers-disease-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benny</dc:creator>
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by Benny Arce
The care and management of patients afflicted with Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease (AD) is often a difficult task. This becomes more difficult as the disease progresses to its advanced stage. Yet right at the onset of AD until the end, it is necessary to provide patients with proper Alzheimer diet and nutrition to help [...]]]></description>
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