by Gary Chandler | Apr 25, 2022 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Clinical Trials Expanding For PRN100 Neurodegenerative disease is the fastest-growing cause of death on earth. Unfortunately, there isn’t a cure, but a special form of immunotherapy continues to offer hope. Preclinical studies have demonstrated that monoclonal...
by Gary Chandler | Feb 7, 2019 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Neurologists Often Defend Themselves, Not Others Editor’s Note: In April 2019, Dr. Stanley Prusiner published conclusive evidence that Alzheimer’s disease is a prion disease. The implications are far-reaching. It impacts 50-100 million victims, their...
by Gary Chandler | May 4, 2017 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Prion Disease A Spectrum Disease By the time Kay Schwister got her diagnosis last summer, she couldn’t talk anymore. But she could still scowl, and scowl she did. After weeks of decline and no clue what was causing it, doctors had told Schwister — a 53-year-old...
by Gary Chandler | Nov 14, 2016 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
CJD Often Misdiagnosed As Alzheimer’s Disease Maine Medical Center confirmed Friday that a patient treated at the hospital carried a rare, dangerous brain illness to which a “small number” of other patients may have been exposed, though the hospital called that...
by Gary Chandler | Oct 4, 2016 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Prions Fueling A Public Health Disaster Urine can be used to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Unfortunately, it also is a pathway that spreads prion disease among mammals. The Medical Research Council team is working on a simple test. They claim that their...
by Gary Chandler | Dec 19, 2014 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Both Are Forms Of Prion Disease Neurodegenerative disease is the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. It’s time to expand the conversation immediately. Dr. Stanley Prusiner, an American neuroscientist from the University of California at San Francisco,...
