With two dead and one more case in Hood River County this rare disease reflects the broader challenge of dealing with rare prion diseases. With no cure or clear cause in most cases, public health ...

Two people within the same Oregon county have died of a rare brain disorder that causes dementia-like symptoms without a clear cause or possible link tying the deaths together.

Two people in the county, which has a population of about 24,000, have died from the illness, and a third case is still being ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) — Three cases of a rare, fatal brain disease have been reported by public health officials in Oregon’s Hood River County.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a rare brain disorder caused by infectious proteins called prions, which causes rapid, progressive ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) and Lewy body dementia (LBD) are incurable and progressive neurodegenerative disorders, with some ...