CJD scare: $3m to boost sterilisation at hospitals
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The State Government is set to spend more than $3 million on new sterilisation equipment at seven public hospitals to prevent a repeat of this week&#39;s Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contamination scare.
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Dutch doctors are shocked by a higher than expected mortality rate in a clinical trial for acute pancreatitis.
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An extra Â£9m is to be spent cleaning up hospitals Northern Ireland over three years, the health minister says.
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UK researchers claim to have  found a way to make the hospital 'superbug' vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.
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TORONTO - Hospital funding in Ontario has sparked a three-way fight between the health minister, the province&#39;s largest union and hospital administrators.
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It recalls a solution that might be linked to a rare infection.
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Â· Experts 'concerned' by dramatic rise  Â· Questions over triple jab for children
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Three out of the seven specimens taken from patients of the Caritas Medical Centre outbreak have tested positive for parainfluenza, the Centre for Health Protection says.
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Out with stainless steel, in with copper? It might be a new hospital trend Â not for looks, but for germ-fighting.
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Three out of the seven specimens taken from patients of the Hong Kong Caritas Medical Center outbreak have tested positive for parainfluenza, the Center for Health Protection
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Sep 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - United Kingdom health officials this week began telling several thousand Britons they may face a slightly increased risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) because they received blood products from
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Hospitals across the Midlands are trying to trace hundreds of patients who may have been exposed to brain-wasting vCJD through blood plasma products.
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A new Â£300 million programme over three years, to modernise and transform sexual health services in England, was announced today by Health Secretary, John Reid.
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Confectionery and soft drinks giant Cadbury Schweppes has said it would incur costs totalling about 30 million pounds after being hit by a recent salmonella food scare.
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London hospitals will get more than $1.5 million to fix their buildings as part of a $60-million announcement yesterday by the province.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...
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Last year saw a 3% increase in the number of transplant operations that took place in the UK in 2002, according to the health department.