Doctors have been given permission to give a British man with CJD a pioneering treatment, in a world first. There is currently no treatment for the rare but lethal brain disease, known as the ...

A teenager with variant-CJD has shown signs of improvement after ... Today, experts studying his case believe the new treatment may have slowed down the progress of the disease and say the drug ...

Unfortunately, many more cases of CJD followed around the world, and the link became clear. Infectious proteins had been transmitted during the treatment, which later attacked the brain.

Explore a new study linking SSRI use to sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Mood changes suggest early neurodegeneration.

Some died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a degenerative brain ... the general population", and reiterated that the hormone treatment had not been used since 1985. No, said Science News.