Health officials say a patient in Texas has died of a rare brain disorder believed to be caused by consumption of beef products contaminated with mad cow disease. It is only the fourth known case ...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes a cow's brains to become ‘spongy’ ...

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

Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigating whether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has the human form of mad cow disease. Tests are being done to see if the patient has ...

The human form of 'mad cow' disease affects one in a million people ... inherited genetic mutations can cause a small proportion of patients — 5 to 15 percent — to develop the disease.

BOSTON - Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigating whether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has the human form of mad cow disease. Dr. Alfred DeMaria, the state's director of ...

which were similar to those presented in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare fatal ...

"The patient’s history ... and variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD), which is a form of mad cow disease, are prion diseases found in people. Mad cow disease is an example of a prion ...

Most countries wanted to develop surveillance programs to know whether or not people were being affected by mad cow disease. It's funded by the CDC and we're funded to do neuropathologic surveillance.