Hopes for better vCJD diagnosis
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Scientists develop a technique they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD) in humans.
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Sep 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - United Kingdom health officials this week began telling several thousand Britons they may face a slightly increased risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) because they received blood products from
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The UK Department of Health is today issuing the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
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Cardiac pacemakers could help prevent unexpected epilepsy deaths in some sufferers, a new study suggests. The research, published in medical journal The Lancet, claims that devices to monitor and correct abnormal heart beats could save lives.
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A university hospital on Thursday confirmed a 47-year-old man from Taegu had contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the fatal neuro-degenerative illness that causes mental disorder and destroys memory.
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Mike Waites Health Correspondent, SCIENTISTS have identified a new strain of vCJD which could strike people previously unaffected by the disease.
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Researchers have come up with a potentially new way to diagnose -- and treat -- the progressive brain disorder
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William Sutherling of the Huntington Medical Research Institute demonstrates how to use magnetic imaging to hunt down seizure-causing brain tissue.
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Deep brain electrical  stimulation appears to be more effective than the best medical  treatment in reducing motor symptoms and improving quality of  life in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease, according  to the results of a clinical trial.
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The recent death of a middle-aged Alaska woman admitted to Harborview Medical Center for severe, unexplained dementia is being investigated by one of the nation&#39;s leading experts in prion diseases -- a category of illnesses that include so-called mad cow ...
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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NEW YORK  - Scientists may be closing in on  a remedy for a common degenerative condition of the retina  called retinitis pigmentosa.
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Rogue proteins that behave like those linked to vCJD and Alzheimer's can give yeast a survival advantage.
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An experimental test that analyzes proteins in spinal fluid offers hope for definitive diagnosis of the disease.
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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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NEW YORK  - French researchers report that   a novel formulation of copper and hydrogen peroxide can   inactivate infectious prions -- disease-causing proteins   responsible for scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease, and the   human form of the disease called Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
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A man has lost his wife and sister to a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) which strikes one in a million people. Barry Harper&#39;s wife Phyllis, from Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, died last month after battling