Nov. 21 -- FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may be moving closer to better treatments for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease, and the related condition ...

WASHINGTON — While no case of mad cow infection has ever been found in the United States, the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration are looking at new ways to prevent the disease.

One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that appeared in animals in the 1980s and killed over 200 people during the ...

By Anjali Srivastava: Mad cow disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain disorder in cattle caused by abnormal proteins called prions. Its human form, variant ...

The discovery this week of a third case of mad cow disease in the U.S. is renewing worries that, contrary to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s claim last summer that mad cow “is on its way out,” ...

A prion sickness similar to mad cow is spreading rapidly through North America’s deer and elk populations. A veterinary microbiologist discusses the options for keeping it in check. By James Gaines / ...

Health officials confirm the country's fourth-ever case of an infected cow. April 24, 2012— -- The Department of Agriculture today confirmed a case of mad cow disease found in a dairy cow in ...

She had just graduated from college when the frightening symptoms started to surface. The vivacious, easygoing 22-year-old suddenly became inexplicably irritable and short-tempered. Then her memory ...

Sometimes life feels fine until the tragedy strikes and you realise that it was in the cards. An American woman recently died from an incurable prion disease that she had caught 50 years before. In a ...