Kawasaki disease (KD), an acute self-limited febrile illness that primarily affects children <5 years old, is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in developed countries, with the potential of ...

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In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in the U.S., which coordinates autopsies and neuropathologic examinations of suspected prion disease ...

In Alzheimer’s, some research suggests that a buildup of prion proteins in the brain may contribute to the devastating loss of short- and long-term memory. “Long-term memory shapes our personality, ...

The infections were caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII (TMVII), a sexually transmitted fungus that causes ...

The unusually young age at which these patients developed symptoms strongly suggests that ... the lead author of the research and Director of the UCL Institute of Prion Diseases, clarified, "There is ...

All four patients were men aged 30 to 39 years from New York City ... which has a high prevalence of the fatal prion disease ...

Air quality in many countries has vastly improved since the days of coal fired power stations and steam trains but, paradoxically, air pollutants are increasingly implicated in disease causation. A ...

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