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		<title>Spinal tap may predict Alzheimer&#8217;s years ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Scientists are finding more clues to help determine whether people with mild dementia symptoms are at risk for Alzheimer&#8217;s. A new study suggests that biomarkers found in cerebrospinal fluid (fluid that surrounds the spinal cord and brain and acts as a protective cushion) could predict who would develop Alzheimer&#8217;s disease 90% of the time among... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/disease-info/spinal-tap-may-predict-alzheimers-years-ahead/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego State heart study shows stem cells can repair failing hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This hits home for me as my father is suffering from Congestive Heart Failure. Though it may be too soon to help him, news like this gives others hope for heart related problems. An important development in cardiac health research was made, thanks to a study out of San Diego State. SDSU post-doctoral scholar Sadia... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/disease-info/san-diego-state-heart-study-shows-stem-cells-can-repair-failing-hearts/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>UNDERSTANDING DEMENTIA /ALZHEIMER&#8217;S BEHAVIORS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNDERSTANDING DEMENTIA BEHAVIORS &#160; PART I       &#160; &#160; &#160; Caring for a loved one with dementia poses many challenges for families and caregivers.  People with dementia from conditions such as Alzheimer&#8217;s and related diseases have a progressive brain disorder that makes it more and more difficult for them to remember things, think... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/healthcare/activities/understanding-dementia-alzheimers-behaviors/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery doubles genetic clues to Alzheimer&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new reports in Nature Genetics detail the discovery of five new pathways for detecting Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, the memory-stealing brain illness that is especially prevalent among the elderly. Previous research had identified five genes linked to Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, or AD. The combined efforts of an international consortium of researchers has raised those known genetic markers... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/disease-info/discovery-doubles-genetic-clues-to-alzheimers/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Colombian cluster of early-onset Alzheimers may hold key to future cure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antioquia, Colombia (CNN) &#8212; It&#8217;s a cruel disease that strips away a person&#8217;s identity until they can no longer remember their loved ones or feed themselves. But normally, Alzheimer&#8217;s does not attack until old age. For some, though, it strikes early &#8212; beginning its attack in their late 30&#8242;s. Now, one cluster of Early-onset Alzheimer... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/disease-info/2222/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blood test to spot cancer gets big boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia BOSTON — A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor&#8217;s office. Boston scientists who invented the test and health care giant Johnson &#38; Johnson will announce Monday that they are joining forces... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/disease-info/blood-test-to-spot-cancer-gets-big-boost/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>S.D. researchers are hopeful about new Alzheimer&#8217;s drug</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of Alzheimer’s disease researchers led by scientists in San Diego offered a new glimmer of hope on Wednesday amid a string of setbacks in the long battle to treat the debilitating and deadly condition. A newly discovered compound, named NGP555, blocked the accumulation of beta amyloid — a toxic protein plaque — in... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/disease-info/s-d-researchers-are-hopeful-about-new-alzheimers-drug/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>GENOMICS AND THE FUTURE OF CANCER TREATMENT~ EDWARD J. BENZ, JR., MD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by ?Adriënne via Flickr Centuries ago, when disease was thought to result from a disruption of the body’s four basic “humors” – fluids that collectively governed health – treatments were designed to bring them back into balance. “Therapies,” some of them ghastly by modern standards, were intended to relieve patients of harmful surpluses of... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/caregiving/genomics-and-the-future-of-cancer-treatment-edward-j-benz-jr-md/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego Hospice Offers Psychiatric Care To Ease Suffering via KPBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia SAN DIEGO — Over the past few decades, hospice care has become a more common choice for people who have a terminal illness. These patients forgo life-prolonging treatments and instead get help to make their final days as comfortable and pain-free as possible. The San Diego Hospice is the only one in the nation... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/caregiving/san-diego-hospice-offers-psychiatric-care-to-ease-suffering-via-kpbs/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New test may predict Alzheimers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia By Dr. Sanjay Gupta CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Even back when I was a medical student, we were taught Alzheimer’s disease (AD) began to cause damage in the brain years, perhaps decades before one’s memory started to fade. The big question, of course, was how could you possibly screen for the disease... <a href="http://caring-for-mom-and-dad.info/disease-info/new-test-may-predict-alzheimers/"> [Continue Reading]</a>]]></description>
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