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 ...
Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...
An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ...
A rare and fatal brain disease with a 100% mortality rate has gripped Hood River County, Oregon, raising concerns within the medical community and eliciting intense probes by local and federal health ...
September 27, 2012 — Making an early and accurate diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is easier said than done, a new study shows. Researchers from University of California San ...