However, in 1985, one patient died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare brain infection that causes rapid changes in brain tissue, affecting muscle coordination, thinking and memory. A variant ...

A new leader of the Canadian province has vowed to investigate the mysterious killer disease, which is said to be similar to ...

Patients kept in the dark after receiving blood ... Scientists still have no real idea of what the eventual scale of the CJD epidemic will be. Estimates of the numbers carrying the infection ...

This is known as “multidisciplinary care”. It works best when the skills of all these professions are available to the patient in a co-ordinated way. But the roles of health professions ...

Hospitals by order of the Texas governor have to quarterly issue reports to the state on the immigration status of patients seeking care at facilities. According to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Lupus, doctors like to say, affects no two patients the same. The disease causes the immune system to go rogue in a way that can strike virtually any organ ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — POTS is a life-changing condition and cases are on the rise. People with POTS find the symptoms debilitating, and many struggle to find relief. It impacts people who were ...

Patients are not required to answer the question, however. Public hospitals in Texas will now be required to ask patients if they are in the U.S. legally and keep a record of the funds spent on ...

Austin, Texas (AP) – Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the US legally starting Friday. The new policy stems from an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, and it escalates the ...

Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ...

The results of a new clinical trial have overturned the “wait and see” approach that cardiologists have long favored for symptom-free patients. By Benjamin Mueller For decades, people with ...