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Oral Quinacrine Does Not Increase Survival In Patients With Prion Disease PDF Print E-mail
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The drug quinacrine does not increase survival in patients with prion disease. The results of the first major prospective study of a treatment for human prion disease in the UK are published in an Article early Online and in the April edition of The Lancet Neurology. Human prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), can arise spontaneously, be inherited through a genetic mutation, or develop through infectious transmission.

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