The Scientist : Back to the drawing board for CJD treatment [7/12/2001]

Back to the drawing board for CJD treatment

Email: Pat Hagan - phagan@btinternet.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011207-03

7 December 2001

LONDON — National newspapers and TV like nothing better than a 'miracle cure'. And the story last summer of a young British woman who appeared to make an astonishing recovery from variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD), after being the first human guinea pig to try a new drug treatment (quinacrine and chlorpromazine), had all the right ingredients for the journalistic frenzy that followed.

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