CU scientist still &#39;critical&#39; from illness
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Nobel laureate Eric Cornell remained in critical condition Sunday, suffering from a flesh-eating bacterial disease, according to University of Colorado at Boulder spokeswoman Pauline Hale.
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ATLANTA -- More than 500 patients at Emory University Hospital have a remote chance of exposure to a fatal disease similar to mad cow after a brain surgery patient tested positive for the condition, officials said.
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NEW YORK  - French researchers report that   a novel formulation of copper and hydrogen peroxide can   inactivate infectious prions -- disease-causing proteins   responsible for scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease, and the   human form of the disease called Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
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Boston University confirmed that three researchers who fell ill last year had been exposed to a potentially lethal bacterium, and a local health official said the city should have been notified sooner.
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The infection that threatens the life of University of Colorado Nobel laureate Eric Cornell is rare, aggressive and often the result of plain bad luck, doctors say.
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Medical experts are still investigating  the cause of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's  illness during election campaigning, and poisoning remains one  possibility, his doctor said on Wednesday.
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Health bosses last night reassured the public that the Norfolk case of Legionnaires&#39; disease would not spread. The EDP reported on Tuesday that a Norwich Union IT worker was diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease on September 10.
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A particular genetic region long assumed to be a critical factor in this condition is not as important as thought, says the Johns Hopkins team.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals was on high alert today over fears that a form of CJD suffered by one of its patients may have been transmitted to others via surgical instruments.
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The government has been urged to speed up its research into Variant CJD - the human form of mad cow disease. It follows news that more than 460 people in Northern Ireland are being warned that they could have
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Doctors are still assessing a contact of Alexander Litvinenko who tested positive for a radioactive substance.
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A stressful life may make it tougher to fight the virus which causes most cervical cancer cases, say scientists.
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Doctors aren&#39;t afraid to say it: Practicing medicine has never been more difficult. General practitioners are under intense pressure to see dozens of patients daily.
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Nobel laureate Eric Cornell, a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and adjoint professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been hospitalized with a serious illness.
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Two monkeys exposed to a common pesticide for more than a year developedclassic signs of Parkinson&#39;s disease, strong evidence environmental factors may destroy key brain cells regulating movement
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The future of specialist medicine is at risk due to the way university research is funded, a doctors' leader says.
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A 60-year-old Fayette County man is recovering after spending a week in an area hospital early last month for treatment of West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness that affects the central nervous system.