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 […]

Scientists at NIH, FDA & CDC To Hold Briefing On XMRV Retrovirus

Note: I plan to begin posting blogs about the XMRV retrovirus on Addi and Cassi’s website. Why would I start posting about XMRV when Addi and Cassi have Niemann Pick Type C disease, a fatal “childhood Alzheimer’s” like condition? People who are reading my blog for the first time need to know that all people […]

American Heart Association Features Addi and Cassi’s Fatal Genetic Cholesterol Disorder

Thank you to the American Heart Association for featuring Addi and Cassi Hempel’s story and increasing awareness of Niemann Pick Type C, an ultra rare and fatal cellular cholesterol disease that is trying to steal our twins away from us. We hope that by reading our story, more people will understand the significance of the Niemann Pick Type C […]

Does XMRV Use Cholesterol to Survive in the Body Like HIV-AIDS? What XMRV Infected Twins May Teach us about the Virus.

You know the old saying, “trust your instincts?”  When you get a “gut feeling” about something, pay attention to it.  Ever since Addi and Cassi first became ill with a flu like virus in 2005, my motherly instincts kicked into overdrive. After months of being sick, I was told by Stanford doctors that Addi and […]

Nobel Prize Winning Cholesterol Researchers Brown and Goldstein Enter Cyclodextrin Field Of Study

I wonder how many smart cholesterol researchers have Google Alerts set up on Brown and Goldstein Labs?  If they do they might want to read this post about the Nobel Prize winning labs release of a very important cholesterol paper involving cyclodextrin and its modulation of cellular cholesterol metabolism. With their amazing new research work, […]

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