WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-- Monday afternoon, Forsyth Medical Center held a news conference to get the facts out about patients exposed to a deadly disease that has no known cure. Doctors said 18 patients ...

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 ...

Researchers believe five people have died from this disease. A leaked memo from health officials asked doctors to keep an eye out for brain disease symptoms. This unknown brain disease causes ...

Rather than being genetic or acquired, Johnston's CJD developed when normal prions in her brain spontaneously began ...

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 ...

The agent that causes mad cow disease, scrapie and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk may sometimes be spread through urine, Swiss researchers reported Thursday. They found that, under certain ...

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 ...

Eight years after Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease claimed the life of her husband of 46 years, Lynn Vrooman still feels the incurable brain disorder’s grip on her. Vrooman, a Lewisville resident, said a ...