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So I was watching that rather cheesy new show, "Something is Killing Me!" with the overwrought host. This episode was about three girls (two were identical twins) with an apparently genetic disorder characterized by normal development up to about age six and then progressive dementia, motor dysfunction, and early death and I was thinking, that sounds a lot like Tay-Sachs Disease. Then they named it: Nieman-Pick Type C, and I was thinking, but didn't that used to be called Tay-Sacks Disease? Sure enough, when I Googled the latter, it came up as a sub-type... How can they just change the names of old diseases like that? As a side note, the "miracle" cure - which involves putting these children under general anesthetic every two weeks and injecting a sugar into their spinal fluid - doesn't seem very successful, but apparently there's research money involved.