An American woman passed away from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. She likely contracted it from contaminated growth hormone ...

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), the most common form of transmissible ... By analyzing the mtDNA CR sequence variation of sCJD and non-CJD, we conclude that sCJD patients display a high ...

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 ...

Last October, 50-year-old Gary Padgham of Bozeman first showed the stumbling gait, the dementia and the impaired vision and memory loss that are typical of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, known also as ...

News that a Sydney man has contracted Creutzfeld-Jacob disease serves to highlight that we still don’t know how to prevent a disease that most often goes unreported, and unremarked on.