DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH: MONTHLY CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE STATISTICS.
PR Newswire, London, August 6. This press release is transmitted on behalf of 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) - the...

MONTHLY CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE STATISTICS.
PR Newswire, London, June 4. This press release is transmitted on behalf of 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) - the...

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease--Information from the World Health Organization.
In June 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) revised its fact sheet on variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). The information below is adapted from the fact sheet. Background Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare and fatal human neurodegenerative condition. Like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), vCJD is classified...

Possible case of CJD investigated.
Byline: Elizabeth Cooney WORCESTER - Public health specialists are investigating a possible case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare degenerative brain disorder that may have led to the death of a Shrewsbury woman. The 57-year-old woman died last week at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester of...

Premorbid changes found in Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
BOSTON -- Regional brain changes measured by magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging can be detected a decade or more before the onset of symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, according to Isak Prohovnik, Ph.D., who presented his findings at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. More...

Neuron killers.
Misfolded, clumping proteins evade conviction, but they remain prime suspects in neurodegenerative diseases As open-and-shut cases go, Alzheimer's disease should top the list. The victim is clear. Suspects are in custody. Wherever neurons die due to Alzheimer's disease, a protein known as amyloid-beta is always found at...

Neuron killers: misfolded, clumping proteins evade conviction, but they remain prime suspects in neurodegenerative diseases.
As open-and-shut cases go, Alzheimer's disease should top the list. The victim is clear. Suspects are in custody. Wherever neurons die due to Alzheimer's disease, a protein known as amyloid-beta is always found at the scene of the crime, hanging around in large, tough gangs called plaques. Parkinson's and...

Facts about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Great Britain and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in the United States.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) first came to the attention of the scientific community in November 1986 with the appearance in cattle of a newly-recognized form of neurological disease in the United Kingdom (UK). Between November 1986 and May 1995 approximately 150,000 cases of this newly-recognized cattle disease were confirmed from...

Prion protein genotypes in Pakistani goats.
ABSTRACT : The PCR-amplified prion protein (PrP) gene was sequenced to determine the frequency of scrapie-associated as well as novel PrP genotypes in 72 healthy goats representing five breeds. A total of six genotypes were detected, resulting from the three reported 143 (H/R), 154 (R/H) and 240 (S/P) and...

Readers respond to call for more research.
Byline: Elizabeth Cooney COLUMN: QUICK TAKES REACHING OUT From New Zealand to New Hampshire, readers have reacted to last week's story of Joseph P. Witkowski and how he and his family struggled first to find a diagnosis and then treatment for his puzzling...