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 ...
September 27, 2012 — Making an early and accurate diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is easier said than done, a new study shows. Researchers from University of California San ...
Prion diseases came to public attention during the 1980s and '90s, when Mad Cow Disease was in the news. While transmission to humans from infected beef has largely been eliminated, other forms of ...
The Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a much-publicized prion disease that is linked to infection with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) prions and is distinct from sporadic or ...
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 ...
This guidance is for interventional procedures on tissues considered at high risk of transmitting Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). These procedures on high-risk tissues are intradural surgery on the ...