Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease May Be Diagnosed Following Rapid Hearing Loss
Rapid hearing loss in both ears may be a symptom of the rare but always-fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and should be considered a reason for clinicians to test for the disorder. That was the conclusion of Henry Ford Hospital researchers after encountering a 67-year-old patient who had been progressively losing hearing in both ears for two months and was eventually diagnosed with the disease. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD, is often confused with so-called "mad cow disease," and though they are in the same family of disorders, are not the same... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease Source Type: news
Aggregation In CJD Likely Leads To Iron Imbalance And Brain Cell Death
An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found. The breakthrough follows discoveries that certain proteins found in the brains of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients also regulate iron. The results suggest that neurotoxicity by the form of iron, called redox-active iron, may be a trait of neurodegenerative conditions in all three diseases, the researchers say... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease Source Type: news
Rapid hearing loss may be a symptom of rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
(Henry Ford Health System) Rapid hearing loss in both ears may be a symptom of the rare but always-fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and should be considered a reason for clinicians to test for the disorder. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 14, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Researchers Explain How Prion Diseases May Spread
Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have made a discovery that may explain how prion diseases, like chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease, adapt in order to spread between various types of animals. The research team, led by neurologist Valerie Sim, discovered that a miniscule change in the prions' makeup appears to give the disease the ability to adapt - to mimic and recreate new strains with which it comes into contact. The team has been studying this area for two years... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease Source Type: news
Normal prion protein regulates iron metabolism
(Case Western Reserve University) An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found. The breakthrough follows discoveries that certain proteins found in the brains of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients also regulate iron. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 13, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
U.S. deserves top mad-cow rating, health officials say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is expected to get the top safety rating for mad cow disease in spring, under a recommendation from international livestock health experts that was greeted on Wednesday as a sure-fire boost to U.S. beef exports. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
New Sleep Articles Available from January
There are many great new articles available from January. The largest is an extensive series of blogs that will give specific advice to help you to sleep better over the course of 30 days. This course can be a major pathway to finally ridding yourself of your sleep problem. You can also learn what may be causing you to wake up early in the morning. If you use continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to treat your sleep apnea, you may question whether you should use it when you have a cold. You can also learn how to avoid getting water in the tubing of your CPAP. Expand your vocabulary by learning some new words related t...
Source: About Sleep Disorders - January 31, 2013 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: news
Obituary: Carleton Gajdusek
Nobel prizewinner who first described the prion disease kuruCarleton Gajdusek, who has died aged 85, had the rare distinction of being a Nobel prizewinner and a convicted child molester. As a medical researcher he studied kuru, an incurable disease that affects the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, and showed that it had a long incubation period, but progresses rapidly when it starts, and is unlike any previously understood infection. It does not provoke an immune response and cannot be destroyed by heat, radiation or formaldehyde. He called the causative agent a "slow virus" and showed that kuru was related to Cre...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 25, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Richmond Tags: Neuroscience Biochemistry and molecular biology Medical research People in science US news World news Source Type: news
