Making the diagnosis for a rare brain disease may now be easier, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Skin biopsies have proven better at diagnosing the rare brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob, abbreviated CJD, than doing a spinal tap to obtain cerebrospinal fluid, a new study reports. Ted Dawson, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins, says this new test has multiple advantages. … Making the diagnosis for a rare brain disease may now be easier, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »