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 ...

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 ...

Objective To determine whether any children in the UK had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Design This active ...

Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that ...

The findings provide further evidence for a prion-like paradigm wherein protein aggregation occurs in a templated fashion. This breakthrough provides the research field with a powerful way to model ...

The findings are published in the journal BMC Cancer. In the study, the team discovered that the prion protein plays a key role in the biology of glioblastoma. "The treatment of glioblastoma has ...