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		<title>Autism research in Time&#8217;s top ten medical breakthroughs</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/15/autism-research-26648/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine&#8217;s end-of-the-year issue names autism research as number 7 in the list of &#8220;Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2009.&#8221; An excerpt: &#8230; Researchers this year identified one possible genetic clue [to the origins of autism]: Variations on a region of chromosome 5, which appear to play a crucial role in about 15% of cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: CA budget cuts will end up costing taxpayers more</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/23/columnist-ca-budget-19073/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Contra Costa Times, columnist Kate Scannell says Gov. Schwarzenegger&#8217;s plan to cut services to people with disabilities will only create bigger and more costly problems. Clearly, any state budget cut is going to hurt some cause or group of people. But it must be recognized that some of the most vulnerable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California faces &#8216;catastrophic&#8217; cuts to adult care</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/15/california-budget-cuts-18407/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Orange County Register: State budget woes threaten to drastically cut adult day programs for Californians with mental and physical disabilities such as Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, intellectual disabilities, and severe arthritis. Praim Singh, executive director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Southern California (RIO), said legislators will either eliminate adult day-care funding completely; reduce the programs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget cuts threaten California Alzheimer&#8217;s programs</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/05/california-alzheimers-budget-17795/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times: California advocates for people with Alzheimer&#8217;s are worried about a proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would shut down the state&#8217;s adult day healthcare centers, which provide services to elderly people living at home, and end funding for Alzheimer&#8217;s care programs. &#8220;We are talking about a devastation of the safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HBO&#8217;s Alzheimer&#8217;s series: &#8216;Ambitious, disturbing&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/09/alzheimers-reviews-15998/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 12:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some reviews of HBO&#8217;s four-part documentary &#8220;The Alzheimer&#8217;s Project,&#8221; which debuts tomorrow. Maria Shriver is the executive producer. From Mary McNamara in the Los Angeles Times: &#8216;The Alzheimer&#8217;s Project&#8217; is an ambitious, disturbing, emotionally fraught and carefully optimistic four-part documentary exploring virtually every angle of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease that can be explored on television. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Shriver on Alzheimer&#8217;s humor</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/26/maria-shriver-14998/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times magazine: Maria Shriver&#8217;s father, Sargent Shriver, is diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s. She answers questions about her four-part series for HBO, &#8220;The Alzheimer&#8217;s Project.&#8221; An excerpt: Q: You are the co-producer of a four-part series for HBO, &#8220;The Alzheimer&#8217;s Project,&#8221; and I wonder if you&#8217;ve noticed that Alzheimer&#8217;s has become a popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Shriver highlights Alzheimer&#8217;s awareness</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/25/shriver-alzheimers-12961/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Hill: California First Lady Maria Shriver is advocating for Alzheimer&#8217;s education and research this week in Washington, and also promoting the HBO film series she produced, &#8220;The Alzheimer&#8217;s Project.&#8221; She spoke at a breakfast meeting of having to reintroduce herself to her father, R. Sargent Shriver, who was diagnosed with the condition in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man who attempted mercy killing avoids jail</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/01/27/mercy-killing-sentence-8563/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, Santa Barbara Independent: An 85-year-old California man who attempted to kill his ailing wife and himself last September has avoided jail, receiving a sentence of time served plus three years probation and 100 hours of community service. His wife had Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. The pair had been married since 1944. James [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pratchett: End Alzheimer&#8217;s stigma</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/07/pratchett-alzheimer-3396/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The first step is to talk openly about dementia&#8217; From the [UK] Telegraph: Best-selling author Terry Pratchett is urging greater awareness of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, and says that discussing &#8220;the demon&#8221; is the only way to kill it. His remarks came at the launch of a new campaign by the Alzheimer&#8217;s Society to reverse stigma associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stem-cell issue energizes race</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/09/10/stem-cell-issue-3168/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Boston Globe: When Joe Biden suggested that opposition to stem-cell research signals less dedication to people with disabilities, he was highlighting an issue that has been energizing the GOP&#8217;s social conservatives. The Democratic vice-presidential nominee&#8217;s comments were apparently aimed at his Republican rival, Gov. Sarah Palin. Politics [...]]]></description>
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