The baseball community in Illinois and beyond is continuing to mourn the loss of a coaching legend. Itch Jones, a three-time ...

A legendary former baseball coach for the Fighting Illini died on Monday. Richard “Itch” “Itchy” Jones died after a ...

An adult male deer in Packer Township, Carbon County, has recently tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), marking ...

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Pennsylvania deerhalf a state away, locally the reaction was one of superficial concern. Wishful thinking was that the always-fatal ...

U.S. researchers say it’s time to look beyond deer when watching for chronic wasting disease exposure and infection, ...

A dead deer has tested positive for the the always-fatal chronic wasting disease in northeastern Pennsylvania. According to ...

Chronic Wasting Disease was detected in a deer in Carbon County for the first time, the Pennsylvania Game Commission ...

Researchers are now racing to come up with strategies to at least slow the spread of the disease in deer and reduce the ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced Wednesday an additional chronic wasting disease-positive deer has been detected in ...

Early onset Alzheimer’s disease is Alzheimer’s disease that starts before age 65. It’s rare under age 30 and more commonly affects people ages 50 and over. Early detection and treatment can ...

In a new study, researchers have also demonstrated that these prions can experimentally transmit the disease to mice.