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Discusses how prion protein (PrP), the infectious protein responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), was reported to have been detected in the appendix removed from a man eight months before he developed symptoms of CJD; Response for the Health Department in London, England; Comments by Sir Kenneth Calman; Plans to test appendixes and tonsils held in hospital laboratory tissue banks for infection; Hospital waiting lists in the United Kingdom.

Highlights topics of interest in the field of medicine. The new cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease reported by the United Kingdom Department of Health; The reduction of arterial stiffness related to hormone replacement therapy; The possibility of presymptomatic dementia diagnosis.