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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a human prion disease, extremely rare yet always fatal. Most cases are sporadic, usually occurring in people over 65 years of age and with an overall incidence ...

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. Scientists have developed a ...

Health officials in Hood River County are investigating three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and fatal brain disorder. Two individuals have already died, prompting an active ...

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 ...

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Vincent J. StankiewiczHADLEY, MA - Vincent J. Stankiewicz, 69, passed on, shuffled off his mortal coil, has gone to the ages, and croaked, on the 21st of December 2025. Cause of death was ...