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New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to help investigate a mysterious brain illness that ...

Fernando Valenzuela’s cause of death has been determined after the Dodgers legend died last month at the age of 63. According ...

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

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infectious proteins known to cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Consequently, synthetic growth hormone, devoid of the risk of transmitting CJD, replaced c-hGH in medical practice. Related Stories ...

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Three hunters from Northeastern Oregon illegally brought back to Oregon skulls of two mule deer they had killed in Wyoming, ...

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