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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Canadian province of New Brunswick is grappling with a cluster of patients suffering from a mysterious neurologic disease that to date has afflicted more than three dozen of its residents.

Katharina Stoeck; Pascual Sanchez-Juan; Joanna Gawinecka; Alison Green; Anna Ladogana; Maurizio Pocchiari; Raquel Sanchez-Valle; Eva Mitrova; Theodor Sklaviadis ...

On a random October day in 2023, my dad’s brain just stopped working. A year later, he was gone — taken by a disease so rare that most doctors never see a single case: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. If ...

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 ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...

We report a case of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) that was plausibly related to accidental occupational exposure in a technician who had handled murine samples contaminated with the agent ...

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