The infection connection; the controversial role of viruses in schizophrenia is being examined from all angles.
Michael Harrington, a neurologist at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Md., knows that his slides of protein patterns taken from the spinal flu id of healthy and schizophrenic persons are not setting the scientific world on fire. "Many people have criticized ourwork and called it...

States attack deadly deer disease. (On First Reading).
In an effort to contain the chronic wasting disease (CWD) afflicting deer and elk across the United States, thousands of captive elk have been killed in Colorado and other states. Wisconsin set a special summer season when hunters were asked to kill 25,000 deer in a 389-square-mile eradication zone...

Blood Relatives.
First-generation artificial blood is about to hit the market Last year, the tally of blood transfusions climbed to a record high. More people are donating blood than ever before, but a rapidly aging society is using it up even faster as the number of elective surgeries and...

Virus, bacterias y priones.
Es muy frecuente, ya sea en la prensa o en las charlas coloquiales, confundir términos tan habituales como virus y bacterias. Ambos son microorganismos que en algunos casos producen enfermedades en los humanos, en los animales o en los vegetales. En otros casos son útiles, como las bacterias que...

Gov't bans importation of beef from Japan on mad cow suspicion.
The Philippine government yesterday banned beef imports from Japan after authorities there detected a suspected case of mad cow disease, Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor said. "It's a standard practice that when there are direct cases of confirmed incidences of mad cow, we are within our rights and...

Risk of mad cow infection very low.
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard What's the risk of eating beef now that a dairy cow in Washington state has been found with mad cow disease? Most medical and animal science experts, as well as government officials, say the risk is very low. ...

Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease.
In the wake of the Second World War, a book was published entitled Progress and archaeology. From the longer perspective afforded to archaeologists, said Childe, its author, life was getting better, materially at least; houses had become larger and more secure, new materials had arrived and our ability to provide...

Looking for a lifeline; Finding little support, grieving family pushes for more research on rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Byline: Elizabeth Cooney The following correction was published Jan. 10, 2008: Linda Horton was the fiancee of Joseph P. Witkowski, who died at age 57 of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Because of a photographer's error, her name was incorrect in a caption in a story in...

Hearing loss as the initial presentation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Abstract Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare type of spongiform encephalopathy. Affected patients present with constitutional symptoms, which progress to severe mental deterioration and movement disorders. Dizziness is the most common early otologic symptom. Few reports in the literature describe patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease who present with sudden-onset...

MONTHLY CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE STATISTICS ANNOUNCED.
PR Newswire, London, July 3. This press release is transmitted on behalf of The Department of Health. The Department of Health is today issuing the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. This includes cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) -...