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

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one of the most mysterious neurological disorders known to medicine. As recent discussions have spotlighted its damage to the brain, perhaps the most central question that ...

Concerns about patient safety and a conflict of interest have been raised by a union over a private firm's multimillion-pound ...

Rocket Pharmaceuticals acknowledged the death of a patient in a pivotal trial assessing its Danon disease gene therapy candidate RP-A501, a study that the FDA has placed on clinical hold. The patient, ...

A woman in the U.S. has died from severe neurological symptoms that were caused by an abnormal protein — which she was unknowingly injected with nearly 50 years earlier. Having shown no neurological ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with an estimated 50% mortality in ...

Three cases of a rare and fatal brain disorder have been identified in Hood River County, Oregon, local health officials have confirmed. The disease is related to mad cow disease and can lead to ...