Posts Tagged ‘brain disease’
By jasonmaddox On November 12th, 2013
Everyone in the family looks forward to Thanksgiving when we would all be away from work, would get to sleep late and wake up to the smells of something delicious my husband would be preparing for the traditional meal at my sister’s house. My sister has always been our “little Susie homemaker.” Susan loved having…
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By Paul Stone On September 10th, 2013
New Hampshire officials released a statement last Wednesday saying they are closely monitoring eight patients who may have been exposed to a deadly brain disease. Surgical equipment used on these eight patients was found to have been contaminated by proteins that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) from an earlier procedure. The instruments had been sterilized using…
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By Paul Stone On October 9th, 2012
Patrick Kennedy’s uncle had a wild dream in the 1960’s. That uncle happens to be John F. Kennedy and that dream was to put an American on the moon. Now, Patrick Kennedy, a former congressman from Rhode Island, has a lofty dream of his own. He wants to find a cure for brain disease with…
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