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News: February 14, 2012
CDC Warns Against Exposure to 'Mad Cow'-Like Brain Diseases
MONDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers have new information about how humans are exposed to "prion" diseases, which are rare, progressive conditions that affect brain function, such as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, chronic wastin...
Prion Disease in Mice May Help Advance Alzheimer's Research
FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers have discovered a new form of prion disease that doesn't act like related illnesses, such as mad cow disease, but instead causes brain damage similar to that produced by Alzheimer's disease. It ...
Unraveling the 'Mad Cow' Mystery
FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may be moving closer to better treatments for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease, and the related condition called Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. A protein called Glypican-...
Protein Branded As Culprit in Mad Cow Disease
THURSDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Mad cow disease and similar conditions may start with one protein that somehow goes astray and deprives the healthy brain cells of another essential protein, researchers say. Mad cow disease is considered a pr...
Blood Test for 'Mad Cow' Disease May Be Near
THURSDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- A simple, inexpensive DNA blood test may be able to detect "mad cow" disease in live cattle months before they show any clinical signs of the disease, according to a Canadian-led team of researchers. Currently...
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