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June 12, 2009

A Mother's Bid to Stop 'Childhood Alzheimer's'

Twins Addison and Cassidy Hempel are fighting a disease that steals their memory, but they're only five years old. Now their mother Kris is on a crusade to stop Niemann-Pick Disease Type C, a disease similar to Alzheimer's. As she takes science into her own hands, she's becoming a renegade doctor!

Addison and Cassidy Hempel

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