Canada: Mad Cow Case Is Detected
Canada, a major exporter of beef, said on Friday that it had found a case of mad cow disease in a beef cow in Alberta. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - February 14, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: By REUTERS Tags: Beef Canada Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) Source Type: news
Canada: Mad Cow Case Is Detected
Canada, a major exporter of beef, said on Friday that it had found a case of mad cow disease in a beef cow in Alberta. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By REUTERS Tags: Beef Canada Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) Source Type: news
Canada confirms new case of mad cow disease, cattle prices rise
OTTAWA/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada confirmed its first case of mad cow disease since 2011 on Friday, but said the discovery should not hit a beef export sector worth C$2 billion ($1.6 billion) a year. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Variant CJD May Be Misdiagnosed in Older PatientsVariant CJD May Be Misdiagnosed in Older Patients
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) may be misdiagnosed in patients older than 55, given their somewhat different clinical phenotype from younger patients, a new report says. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Was The Guardian's 2014 crystal ball accurate?
In January 2014, The Guardian took the brave, and possibly foolhardy, step of predicting the six big health breakthroughs of 2014.
We're taking a look at just how accurate the paper's crystal ball turned out to be, and gave each our own Behind the Headlines "Mystic Meg" rating for predictive accuracy.
Prediction one: IVF success rates to improve after 20 years of stagnation
Prediction two: Better screening for ovarian cancer
Prediction three: New insights into dementia
Prediction four: Open-access surgery
Prediction five: Ninja polymers to fight athlete's foot
Prediction six: Fae...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 30, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Special reports Source Type: news
An alarming presentation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head - Harnish C, Gross B, Rittenhouse K, Bupp K, Vellucci A, Anderson J, Riley D, Rogers FB.
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), also known as prion diseases, are characterized by rapid and fatal neurological decline. They not only detrimentally affect the patient, but also present additional challenges to healthcare systems due to th... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Scrapie could breach the species barrier
The pathogens responsible for scrapie in small ruminants (prions) have the potential to convert the human prion protein from a healthy state to a pathological state, researchers have discovered for the first time. In mice models reproducing the human species barrier, this prion induces a disease similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. These primary results stress the necessity to reassess the transmission of this disease to humans. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 24, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Nasal Test For Human Prion Disease May Accelerate Search For A Cure
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is an incurable disorder that leads to the degeneration of a patient’s central nervous system, eventually leading to death. In the past, the only way to diagnose CJD was to take a post-mortem brain sample or perform a biopsy. Now, however, a relatively non-invasive test has been developed that may assist researchers in finding a treatment for the disease. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - August 13, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
PodMed: A Medical News Roundup From Johns Hopkins (with audio)
(MedPage Today) -- This week?s topics include diagnosing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, brief drug interactions don?t help, Ebola update, and immunonutrition. (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - August 10, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Test developed to detect 'mad cow disease' in humans
A sensitive urine test can identify the human form of mad cow disease in people showing no symptoms. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - August 8, 2014 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
New Tests May Provide Early Diagnosis of CJD New Tests May Provide Early Diagnosis of CJD
New tests use nasal brushings to diagnose sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and urine to diagnose variant CJD. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - August 7, 2014 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
NIH and Italian Scientists Develop Nasal Test for Human Prion Disease
Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -
Related MedlinePlus Page: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - August 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nasal test developed for to diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
A nasal brush test can rapidly and accurately diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an incurable and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorder, according to a study. CJD is a prion disease. These diseases originate when, for reasons not fully understood, normally harmless prion protein molecules become abnormal and gather in clusters. Prion diseases affect animals and people. Human prion diseases include variant, familial and sporadic CJD. The most common form, sporadic CJD, affects an estimated 1 in one million people annually worldwide. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 7, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Infectious prion protein discovered in urine of patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
The misfolded and infectious prion protein that is a marker for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – linked to the consumption of infected cattle meat – has been detected in the urine of patients with the disease. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in animals – also known as Mad Cow disease – are fatal neurodegenerative disorders. There are currently no noninvasive tools available to diagnose the disease and there are no treatments. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 7, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
