Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a rare brain disorder, characterised by rapidly worsening brain damage. Scroll down to learn more about this rare disease. Written by : Sushmita Sharma ...

Two dead, another infected, as rare brain disease reported in one Oregon county. Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which causes sponge-like holes to develop in the brain, have been found ...

Scientists have developed a new system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the laboratory, paving the way for research to find treatments for the fatal brain disorder.

As the amount of abnormal prion protein grows, it becomes hard to break down, causing brain degeneration and neurologic disease. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is the most common of the human prion ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare, rapidly worsening brain disorder caused by misfolded prion proteins. It can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy. Sporadic disease accounts for about 85% ...

Health officials in Hood River County say that two people have died of a rare brain disease. County health officials say they’ve identified three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the last ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)—the human equivalent of mad cow disease—is caused by rogue, misfolded protein aggregates termed prions, which are infectious and cause fatal damages in the patient’s ...

Something rare appeared to have killed her — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which strikes one in a million people, eroding the brain and causing the body to waste away. Rarer still was her age: 44.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is not only caused by meat from mad cows. Some patients who took human growth hormone as children before 1977 wound up with the disease decades later. By Kristen Philipkoski.

SEATTLE -- The incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the spongiform brain malady, rose by more than half in the U.S. from 2000 to 2014, according to a new study reported here, although the ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare, rapidly worsening brain disorder caused by misfolded prion proteins. It can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy. Sporadic disease accounts for about 85% ...