The Pennsylvania Game Commission has announced that two deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a new area. The adult male deers who tested positive were in Luzerne County and ...

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 ...

The most common prion disease in people is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Another prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), has a similar name but is a different, much rarer ...

Prion diseases such as CWD, mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are typically spread by ingestion, inhalation or by mouth. When a deer licks the saliva, feces or blood from of an already ...

is advancing the imaging capabilities by developing contrast agents to target specific molecules and processes that may reveal more about disease progression than traditional scans. In this video ...

Anastasi’s long-time friend, Alexis Miller, confirmed the news via social media, revealing that the actress succumbed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a hereditary condition in her family.

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment ...

Lady Gaga, 38, graced the 2025 Grammys red carpet looking incredibly edgy in a voluminous black gown, which looked straight out of her “Disease” music video that dropped in November.

In 2022, more than 941,600 Americans died from cardiovascular disease. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new report. The American Heart ...

News reports suggest that Baselga succumbed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and progressive neurodegenerative disorder that tends to appear late in life and advances quickly.