Definite diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in living patients remains a challenge. A test that detects the specific marker for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, the prion protein (PrP CJD), by ...

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 federal government is scrapping a program that performed autopsies on the brains of people suspected of having ...

Five patients who underwent surgery at a Cape Cod Hospital this summer may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after their surgeries were performed using the same potentially contaminated ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) --Researchers at the Medical Research Council in Britain have discovered it may be possible to test patients for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease using urine samples.

Health officials have confirmed that a patient who underwent neurosurgery at a New Hampshire hospital earlier this year had Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. The death, and suspicions that the patient may ...

Over the past week we have learned that 15 patients in New England were exposed to a rare infection called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) when neurosurgical instruments contaminated with the ...

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a member of the family of prion diseases, all of which are associated with the presence of an abnormal form of the prion protein in the brain. It is a rare, ...

THE PRION DISEASES POSE UNIQUE SCIENTIFIC, medical, veterinary and regulatory challenges. Here, we summarize current information bearing on the natural history, pathobiology and epidemiology of these ...

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is an infectious disease that causes the brain to degenerate. The hallmark of this disease is mental deterioration and involuntary muscle spasms. Over time, the disease ...