by Gary Chandler | Jun 10, 2013 | Prion Disease
Book Benefits Alzheimer’s Disease Research Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other forms of neurodegenerative disease are collectively becoming the leading cause of death around the world. Alzheimer’s disease alone is killing 50-100...
by Gary Chandler | Oct 23, 2010 | Alzheimer's Disease
Contagion Spreads By Many Pathways By Jim Schnabel Tiny clusters of amyloid-beta (A-beta), long believed to trigger Alzheimer’s disease, are infectious enough that they can spread into the brain from the body, according to a new study that appeared online in...
by Gary Chandler | Sep 3, 2007 | Alzheimer's Disease Caregivers
Prion Contamination Threatens Caregivers There might not be a difference between Alzheimer’s disease and the more-feared Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) at all. That is very bad news for millions of caregivers and community members around the world....