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 ...

Community members, family and friends of those affected by Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease will gather on Oct. 9 at South Park for Strides for CJD, a 5K walk/run. The rare neurodegenerative disease ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIMAS, Calif. (KABC) -- Dozens of friends turned out for Ryan Wilson Palmer's 49th birthday. They put candles on his cake, hugged him and sang to him. But Ryan's ...

(CNN) -- Doctors and hospital officials from Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they might have been exposed to ...

Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern for an incredibly rare disease. Reading time 3 minutes A small Oregon ...

A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report. Reading time 3 minutes The grim reaper can sometimes take decades to ...