A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report ...

Oregon's Hood River County is grappling with a rare brain disorder, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which creates holes in the brain. Health officials have identified three cases in the past ...

Health officials in Hood River County are investigating three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and fatal brain disorder. Two individuals have already died, prompting an active ...

The Hood River County Health Department confirmed April 14 that two people have died from a mad cow-like illness called ...

Lang and co-authors evaluated 25 of 222 verified cases reported to Public Health New Brunswick. All patients had a ...

A University of California–led case report in Emerging Infectious Diseases, describes a 58-year-old woman who, an estimated ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a serious brain disorder caused by a misfolded protein called a prion, which is found in the brain and nerve cells. In the United States, there are about 500 new cases ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal condition that affects the brain. CJD causes brain damage ... These prions trigger the normal proteins in the body to misfold, resulting in ...