Hope over jab for lethal NHS bug
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UK scientists are developing a vaccine to combat the life-threatening Clostridium difficile hospital bug.
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Pupils at a school are offered antibiotics after three pupils contract a bug that can cause meningitis.
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Health experts and drugs companies on Friday urged rich countries to come up with public funding to spur development of a human vaccine against a pandemic strain of the bird flu virus that could kill millions of people around the world within months.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been struck down by a highly infectious stomach bug that swept the United Kingdom during the holiday period, doctors said on Thursday.
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Scientists are frantically trying to establish Thursday if a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Britain is the same virus strain as last month&#39;s cases.
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The UK is drawing up plans to deal with a possible outbreak of blu flu.
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Over 100 hospital wards closed amid fears that infection will spread
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Scientists say they are closer to developing a vaccine against a winter vomiting virus.
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A bacterium closely related to bugs that cause gangrene, tetanus and food poisoning could help to beat cancer.
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Researchers in Dundee are set to trial a new treatment for children struck with a deadly skin condition.
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UK scientists have worked out a vaccine to stop Type-1 Diabetes for those with pre-disposition or recent diagonosis. The first human trial of the vaccine will start next year.
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The announcement of an effective malaria vaccine announced this week could become a life saver in areas of the world where deadly malaria claims millions of lives each year.
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A new study suggests that a solution to drug-resistant bacteria like staph could be forcing the bugs to kill themselves.
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Ministers say they are getting to grips with hospital bugs as they set out measures in the fight against them.
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Of all the absurdities currently guiding UK government health policy, the notion that an intensive inquiry into the work of Britain&#39;s first GP serial killer provides the basis for
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Scientists next month will reportedly begin human testing of a vaccine to combat a possible flu pandemic that experts have warned could kill as many as 7 million people.
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