Rare Brain Disease Not Responsible For Woman&#39;s Death
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A rare brain disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was not responsible for the death of a Ulster County woman, according to the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center in Ohio.
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MONDAY, Nov. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Obesity is harmful to the brain for women, but it doesn't appear to raise the risk of dying for men who have suffered heart attacks, according to two new studies.
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The woman treated at Harborview Medical Center this summer for a mysterious brain ailment related to mad-cow disease has died.
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An appeals court Wednesday denied a request from the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman for a new trial in the long-running right-to-die case, according to the court clerk's office.
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A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb did not suffer from a condition that made her believe she was pregnant, a psychiatrist testified.
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A virus used in a gene therapy experiment likely didn't cause the death of an Illinois woman suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, although it can't be completely ruled out, government health advisers said Monday.
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KINGSTON, NY -- State health officials are probing the deaths of four Ulster County residents who died in recent months of a rare brain disease.
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ATLANTA -- Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is telling more than 500 patients they may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease, although the actual risk is &quot;remote.
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[Health India]: Washington, Nov 21: A new research conducted by researchers at The Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) suggest that there are clear differences in brain function between healthy people who carry a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer&#39;s
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NEW YORK  - Results of a brain autopsy study indicate that most older adults have significant brain pathology (disease), regardless of the presence or absence of outward signs of dementia.
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NEW YORK  - Overall, children born to women who received an X-ray while pregnant are not more likely than other children to develop a brain tumor, Swedish researchers report based on a study they conducted.
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CLEARWATER, Fla., Jan 28  - A brain-damaged  Florida woman whose fate has been disputed by her relatives  should be represented by her own lawyer rather than the husband  who wants to let her die, her parents said on Friday.
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Advanced brain scanning uncovered startling signs of awareness in a woman in a vegetative state, British scientists reported Thursday &#151; a finding that complicates one of medicine's ethical minefields.
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KINGSTON, NY -- Health officials here say a woman&#39;s death in November was caused by Cruetzfeldt-Jacob disease, bringing to five the number of Ulster County residents who have died within the past year from the rare brain disorder.
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âAlready some have called it the &#39;female Viagra,&#39; though it&#39;s not at all like Viagra, because it affects sexual drive, not the functioning of sex organs.
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(Albany, NY-AP, October 18, 2004) - State health officials said Monday an investigation found nothing unusual about the number of people who died of a rare, brain-wasting disorder in the Hudson Valley in the past year.
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A mother claims the death of her husband at the hands of their son could have been avoided with the right care.