by Gary Chandler | Feb 7, 2019 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Prion 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 | Feb 19, 2009 | Prion Disease
Prions Cause Neurodegenerative Disease Scientists have discovered a surprising link between Alzheimer’s disease and mad cow disease. Both diseases involve something called a prion protein. (Both diseases are deadly and contagious.) The finding, which appears in...
by Gary Chandler | Aug 2, 2007 | Alzheimer's Disease Caregivers
Caregivers Not Warned About Prion Contamination Meryl Comer probably couldn’t tell you the most harrowing moment of her journey through Alzheimer’s disease. Maybe it happened before her husband Harvey’s diagnosis, when he brandished a carving knife at Thanksgiving. Or...
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...
