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 ...

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 ...

Jonathan Simms, 18, from Belfast, is to undergo world-first drug treatment in a final bid to slow down damage caused by variant CJD. His desperate parents won the right to have the blood thinning ...

Early symptoms of CJD can mimic those of dementia. Senior living communities, especially memory care communities, can provide ...

(Neurology) The ratio of plasma brain-derived tau to phosphorylated tau 217 improved CJD prognostication ... Medicare ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

On 20 April last year, 46-year-old Michelle died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). She had been diagnosed with the fatal brain-wasting disorder just two months earlier. Her family have told the ...