by Gary Chandler | Sep 24, 2020 | Alzheimer's Disease Research
All Bodily Fluids, Tissue Infectious Prion diseases are forms of fatal neurodegenerative disease. Excluding the recent coronavirus pandemic, neurodegenerative disease is the fastest-growing cause of death on the planet. Alzheimer’s disease alone is taking the...
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 | Jul 16, 2009 | Prion Disease
Prion Disease Mismanaged Globally It’s not clear how the tangles of the protein tau commonly seen in people with Alzheimer’s disease spread throughout the brain in the course of disease—and to a modest extent in ordinary aging. But European researchers recently...
by Gary Chandler | Apr 25, 2007 | Prion Disease
Prion Disease A Global Epidemic UK ministers might fund a renewed investigation of “hidden” mad cow disease infection in the British population. The government discussed the issue in response to a select committee report on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease...