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	<title>The Addi and Cassi Fund - Niemann Pick Type C</title>
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	<description>Treatments &#38; Cures for Niemann Pick Type C - Childhood Alzheimer&#039;s</description>
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		<title>IND Application Filed With FDA To Bring Cyclodextrin Into The Brain To Treat Fatal Childhood Cholesterol Disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After months and months of work and input by doctors and researchers, Dr. Caroline Hastings at Children&#8217;s Hospital Research Center Oakland filed our second Investigational New Drug application (IND) with the FDA on July 14, 2010.
The 200+ page IND filing details our request to deliver hydroxy-propel-beta-cyclodextrin (HPBCD or CYCLO) directly into Addi and Cassi&#8217;s central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Patients Presenilin 1 Gene Defect Causes A Lysosomal Storage Disorder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A research paper by Dr. Ralph Nixon, director of the Center of Excellence on Brain Aging and the Silberstein Alzheimer&#8217;s Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center, was published today in the journal Cell reporting that Alzheimer’s patients with genetic mutations in the presenilin 1 gene have disruptions in the cellular protein recycling process mechanisms in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orphan Drug Act  &#8211; A Collosal Failure Considering Rare Disease Drug Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past week, I have been obsessing over rare disease statistics ever since it was published that 80% of all rare diseases are &#8216;ultra orphans&#8217; &#8211; affecting 6,000 people per disease state or less &#8211; and only 15% of all rare disease drug applications filed with the FDA are for &#8216;ultra orphans.&#8217;
Yesterday, I posted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://addiandcassi.com/orphan-drug-act-a-collosal-failure-considering-rare-disease-drug-statistics/</link>
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		<title>New FDA &#8216;Rare Disease&#8217; Division Being Proposed to U.S. House Committee on Appropriations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kakkis Every Life Foundation is leading the effort to request $10 million in the fiscal year 2011 Ag-Rural Development-FDA Appropriations bill directing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to establish a new review division for Biochemical and Genetic Diseases within the Center for Drug Evaluation Research (CDER), Office of New Drugs.
A letter from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Living With Dementia Diagnosis &#8211; 4 Year Old Johnathan Spenser&#8217;s Story</title>
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  Johnathan Spencer has Niemann Pick Type C disease like Addi and Cassi.
Embracing every moment
Thursday, April 29, 2010
By Sara Suddes (ssuddes@gilroydispatch.com):  Photo by: Lora Schraft, Staff Photographer, Gilroy Dispatch  
Every morning, Johnathan Spencer&#8217;s mother dissolves the contents of a pill containing an experimental drug into a cup of water, draws the solution into a syringe and squirts the foul [...]]]></description>
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