Dr Paul Lawler, clinical director for South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, said there was no suggestion that the initial patient could have been suffering from sporadic CJD and that the operating ...

Twenty-four hospital patients face up to 20 years of uncertainty and fear after being warned that they may have been infected with CJD because of an appalling hospital blunder. They were operated ...

The patient in this case, who has not been named, has sporadic CJD, the most common form of the disease in humans. This is different from variant CJD, the version linked to eating beef infected by ...

We have shown that MRI signal changes are often not identified on initial scan at referring hospitals in patients with CJD. Signal abnormality characteristically occurs in the basal ganglia and ...

The scans and corresponding reports of 103 CJD patients were reviewed. The population comprised 91 sCJD, 7 vCJD, 2 iCJD and 3 IPD patients. The number of scans with DWI is shown as is the ...

In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.

The memo told doctors to keep an eye out for patients that have symptoms of the rare brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - blurred vision, hallucinations, or disorientation - but tests rule ...