LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) learned this week that the Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville performed surgery on a patient in 2015 who was later ...

Further evidence validating tests for both sporadic or classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant CJD (vCJD) has been reported in 2 new studies, both published recently in JAMA Neurology. The ...

A comprehensive mouse model of inherited prion disease exhibits cognitive, motor, and neurophysiological deficits that bear a striking resemblance to the symptoms experienced by patients with the ...

Scientists have developed a new system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the laboratory, paving the way for research to find treatments for the fatal brain disorder. The team have devised a method ...

The Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a much-publicized prion disease that is linked to infection with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) prions and is distinct from sporadic or ...

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 started with small symptoms at first. Jen Nimsick noticed her mother had a slight tremor and issues walking, but she knew what it meant. Over the next nine months, Nimsick watched as a rare genetic ...

The first case of an extremely rare mad cow-like disease, which affects the nervous system and usually is fatal has been reported in Kenya. The case of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Join 23ABC on October 3rd for Strides for CJD Bakersfield as we walk in memory of Mayor Harvey Hall and others impacted by Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Prion diseases, such ...