Rare Disease Misdiagnosed in One Case, Tests Find
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New questions arose on Friday about a cluster of deaths believed to be from a rare brain disease in a single county in upstate New York when tests
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New York state health officials are investigating an unusual cluster of deaths in an upstate New York county that have all been caused by the same rare brain disease, they said Wednesday.
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Scientists have identified a group of proteins that together indicate a person has Alzheimer's disease in what may be a big step toward an accurate test for the devastating brain ailment.
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A rare brain disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was not responsible for the death of a Ulster County woman, according to the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center in Ohio.
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For years, dog owners have been informing their doctors about the apparent disease-detecting ability of their pets, and today those claims gain some credibility
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A statement issued on behalf of a major Dublin hospital effectively confirms that a young man suspected of having variant CJD does have the incurable brain disease.
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Online symptoms searches can be useful. They can also give you acute misinformation.
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Researchers develop a new protein test that could one day take the guess-work out of making a diagnosis
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A new test may help scientists answer a perplexing &quot;which came first&quot; question about the development of Alzheimer&#039;s disease, possibly pointing the way to earlier diagnosis or even treatment.
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The state Health Department is investigating suspected cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disease, in Ulster County.
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Three teams of scientists have identified a genetic mutation that is linked to about 5 percent of inherited cases of Parkinson's disease.
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AN article in scientific journal says researchers have discovered a rare disease caused by a gene mutation that often kills children before the age of two.
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New tests that detect genes for common diseases are reaching the consumer market. But will they help make people healthier?
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A rare genetic mutation may help explain why some people get hit with a triple whammy of high blood pressure, cholesterol and a tendency
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A California man who tested positive for HIV recently learned the diagnosis was a mistake -- a fact that took eight years to discover.
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Preliminary tests indicate that a 53-year-old Kansas man, who died on Friday, had the rare brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which is not related to mad cow disease, health officials said on Wednesday.
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3D scans of faces are set to speed up the diagnosis of rare genetic conditions, scientists say.