A world-first treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), developed by scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit at UCL, has shown "very encouraging" early results following its ...
Close-up on three ropes and marine knots isolated on white background. Each is photographed separately. Prion diseases are rare but deadly neurodegenerative brain diseases that result from misfolding ...
A world-first treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), developed by scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit at UCL, has shown “very encouraging” early results following its ...
A small Canadian province feared it had a mystery neurological illness on its hands. The search for answers set off a battle for the truth.
People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed. Compared ...
Katharina Stoeck; Pascual Sanchez-Juan; Joanna Gawinecka; Alison Green; Anna Ladogana; Maurizio Pocchiari; Raquel Sanchez-Valle; Eva Mitrova; Theodor Sklaviadis ...
Two friends who hunted deer together at the same lodge contracted an extremely rare brain disease and died, raising fears that they may have been infected by contaminated venison. A team of ...
Researchers have drawn a possible link between the deaths of two hunters in the last couple of years from a rare neurological condition. A report, authored by medical experts from the University of ...
Everything was normal for Arlene VonMyhr, until it wasn’t. VonMyhr, 55, and her husband, Gary, celebrated the University of Michigan clinching a national championship on Jan. 8. That night, she woke ...
It is usually with hyperbole that we describe an unpleasant situation as a “nightmare scenario.” But for the 18 patients of Forsyth Medical Center who were told in the last several days that they may ...