'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease

A small Canadian province feared it had a mystery neurological illness on its hands. The search for answers set off a battle ...
MedPage Today

Possible Early Symptom of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Identified

People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed. Compared ...
MLive

Michigan woman dies from rare brain disease that’s 100% fatal. She’s not the first.

Everything was normal for Arlene VonMyhr, until it wasn’t. VonMyhr, 55, and her husband, Gary, celebrated the University of Michigan clinching a national championship on Jan. 8. That night, she woke ...
Winston-Salem Journal

Editorial: Mistake that exposed patients to rare disease unacceptable

It is usually with hyperbole that we describe an unpleasant situation as a “nightmare scenario.” But for the 18 patients of Forsyth Medical Center who were told in the last several days that they may ...
Casper Star-Tribune

Colo. hospital patient dies of rare brain disease

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - Officials at a suburban Denver hospital alerted six brain surgery patients after another patient died of classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare degenerative brain ailment, ...
KXAN

What are prion diseases? Hunters died of fatal disorder after eating tainted deer meat, researchers say

(NEXSTAR) – A recent report published in the medical journal Neurology suggests that two hunters contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal neurological disorder, after eating venison obtained from ...