Fifth Kingston Area Death Linked To Rare Brain Disease
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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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Doctors at John Hopkins&#39; University School of Medicine Department of Neurology / Neurosurgery launched a study of the cause of the genetic disorder which may lead to making a step forward in finding a treatment.
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Thousands of people have received letters warning they may be at increased risk of developing the incurable brain disease variant CJD as a result of medical treatment, it was announced yesterday.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A mysterious illness is k
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(New York-WABC, October 14, 2004) - New York State officials are investigating a rare, one-in-a-million brain disease that&#39;s killed four people in Ulster County.
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AN article in scientific journal says researchers have discovered a rare disease caused by a gene mutation that often kills children before the age of two.
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TRENTON, NJ -- A New Jersey man who recently returned from a trip to Liberia died last week of an illness that had not been detected in the United States since 1989, but is common in West Africa.
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KINGSTON, NY Health officials in the Hudson Valley say a woman&#39;s death in November was caused by Cruetzfeldt-Jacob (KROYTS&#39;-felt JAY&#39;-kuhb) disease.
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Preliminary tests indicate that a 53-year-old Kansas man, who died on Friday, had the rare brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which is not related to mad cow disease, health officials said on Wednesday.
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A dentist from Houston, Texas, has died after becoming infected with a flesh-eating bacteria. Dr. Kenneth Dean Creamer, 52, became infected after suffering a cut to his leg while he was fishing near Port O&#39;Connor, on the Gulf coast, according to ...
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A fifth person is arrested over the death of a man with learning difficulties, who was "brutally" beaten by a gang.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--BILOXI -- An autopsy of remains found floating near the shoreline of the Mississippi Sound in Biloxi showed the cause of death was drowning.
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October 17, 2004 -- KINGSTON, NY - An autopsy on one of five Ulster County residents believed to have died from the brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob&#39;s disease found the disease was not present in the woman&#39;s brain, her grieving father has revealed.
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Dr. Joyce Swartney, formerly of Williamsville and Detroit, died June 3 in Sarasota, Fla., from complications associated with progressive supranuclear palsy. She was 71.
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Emory officials believe Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an extremely rare degenerative disease, is the probable diagnosis of an Emory University Hospital patient following a brain biopsy, and are taking steps on the basis of that assumption.
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KINGSTON, NY -- An autopsy on one of five Ulster County residents believed to have died from the brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob&#39;s disease found that the disease was not present in the woman&#39;s brain, her father said.
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By Joshua Norman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 9--Pat Smith died en route to doing what he loved: building hope for people who have little.