Meet The Children Who Are Resistant To Contracting Ebola, HIV-AIDS

My life grows more surreal by the day. Four years ago, I was told that my eight year old identical twins have a fatal genetic cholesterol disease called Niemann Pick Type C (the “Childhood Alzheimer’s”) and they would likely not live to see their 10th birthday. Now I have learned from top virus scientists that […]

Procter & Gamble’s Febreze Product May Contain Active Drug Compound That Can Enter Human Cell

Something does not smell right over at Procter & Gamble. For more than a year, I have been trying to reach the proper people at the company  (ie. Sr. Execs) in order to get them to pay attention to the fact that one of their key products has a potential drug in it that millions […]

Cholesterol and Autism – Can Eggs In The Diet Save the Autistic Brain? Will SLOS Provide Clues To Autism?

Will it be the Mom’s and Dad’s with children with autism who will finally help educate the public on how serious cholesterol is when it comes to brain function in children? This week researchers at The Ohio State University Medical Center announced they are studying whether a simple nutritional intervention – adding cholesterol to the […]

HDAC Inhibition Therapy to Stop Neurodegeneration? Notre Dame and Cornell Scientists PNAS Paper To Show How Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor (HDIs) Corrects Niemann Pick Type C Cholesterol Defect

Notre Dame and Cornell researchers are reporting a major breakthrough in Niemann Pick Type C disease research that has major relevance to other progressive neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and ALS. A paper coauthored by Olaf Wiest and Paul Helquist of the University of Notre Dame’s Department Chemistry & Biochemistry and Frederick Maxfield, Chair […]

Gleevec Cancer Drug Reported To Work In Alzheimer’s disease also working in Niemann Pick Type C mouse

A New York Times story is reporting that Paul Greengard (and his dog Alpha), who won a Nobel Prize for his work on signaling in brain cells, has found that the cancer drug Gleevec, is a new potential drug target for Alzheimer’s disease and blocks gamma secretase activating protein. Rudolph Tanzi and Paul Aisen are […]

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