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A new multicenter study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has established a practical, evidence-based definition of rapidly progressive dementia (RPD), a rare but devastating form of cognitive decline that develops over months ...
Dec 15, 2025
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If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a hole does not mean missing ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Florida wildlife officials have confirmed the state's second case of a deadly and highly contagious infection known as "zombie deer disease" in a wild deer.
Oct 17, 2025
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In April 2025, three people in Oregon developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, fatal neurological condition that is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease. It impacts one or two ...
May 29, 2025
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In 2019, reports of a rapidly progressive dementia cluster in New Brunswick raised public and media concerns about a potential new neurological syndrome. Public Health New Brunswick (PHNB) launched an epidemiological investigation ...
A proposal for billions of dollars for the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas will go before the state's voters in November as a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing its funding heads to the Secretary ...
Apr 30, 2025
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Health officials in Hood River County, Oregon, are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Apr 17, 2025
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In May of 2024, Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive dementia—particularly autoimmune forms of dementia and rapidly progressive ...
Mar 7, 2025
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Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50% in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, ...
Jan 14, 2025
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William Lopez remembers clearly the day in June 2017 when he says he was asked to call the spouse of a college friend who had just died and ask for her eyes.
Nov 27, 2024
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