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NPR A similar test might offer earlier diagnoses of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Prion Test For Rare, Fatal Brain Disease Helps Families Cope
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Scientists now have a fairly noninvasive way to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare form of dementia.
109 months ago
HuffPost Entertainment She will be missed
'General Hospital' Star Barbara Tarbuck Dies At 74
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Tarbuck died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on Monday.
111 months ago
Entertainment Weekly RIP Barbara Tarbuck, veteran actress of General Hospital and American Horror Story.
'General Hospital' and 'AHS' Actress Barbara Tarbuck Dies at 74
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Her daughter said she died at her Los Angeles home and suffered from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder, a rare, degenerative brain disease.
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NBC News Tarbuck played Lady Jane Jacks, on the popular soap opera "General Hospital" from 1996 until 2010. She also appeared in five episodes of Ryan Murphy's hit series "American Horror Story: Asylum" as Mother Superior Claudia.
Barbara Tarbuck, longtime "General Hospital" actress, dead at 74
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Tarbuck died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on Monday.
111 months ago
The Economist From the late 1950s to 1985, about 30,000 people received injections of human growth hormone. Some of them went on to develop Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a neurological disorder. Now, post-mortems of some of them suggest that those injections also car Read more ... ried the "seeds" of the amyloid beta protein responsible for Alzheimer's disease. Could the disease, then, be transmissible by other medical procedures? http://econ.st/1iw56Sx
Chain reaction
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WHEN Auguste Deter (pictured above) was admitted to hospital in 1901, her medical records described her helpless expression and problems remembering her husband’s...
126 months ago
The Economist From the late 1950s to 1985, about 30,000 people received injections of human growth hormone. Some of them went on to develop Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a neurological disorder. Now, post-mortems of some of them suggest that those injections al Read more ... so carried the "seeds" of the amyloid beta protein responsible for Alzheimer's disease. Could the disease, then, be transmissible by other medical procedures? http://econ.st/1QAsaL6
Chain reaction
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WHEN Auguste Deter (pictured above) was admitted to hospital in 1901, her medical records described her helpless expression and problems remembering her husband’s...
126 months ago
I fucking love science The discovery of a new prion is raising questions about neurodegenerative diseases.
Could Alzheimer’s And Parkinson’s Be Infectious?
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Research published last week has identified the first new human prion disease in 50 years. The paper’s lead author, Stanley Prusiner, who won the Nobel prize in 1997 for his discovery that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) could be transmitted by a Read more ... misfolded” protein, says this new disease is also po…
127 months ago
Martha Rosenberg more about mad cow
Article: Four Cases of Possible Human Mad Cow Raise Questions
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Mad cow disease (BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the related Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) found in humans are back in the news.
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Martha Rosenberg New brain disease cases raise mad cow questions. Is US government vigilant?
New Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Cases Raise Questions | Reporting on Health
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Mad cow disease (BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the related Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) found in humans are back in the news. In the southern Italian region of Puglia, two people died last month.
127 months ago
HuffPost Good News "It’s truly a gift.”
Late Father's Sweet Postcard Makes Its Way To His Son, Almost 8 Years After It Was Sent
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A young boy from Colorado recently received a moving reminder of how much his late father loved him.
Joseph Torrez died from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a degen...
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