Blood infection probe to be held
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A public inquiry is to be held into why contaminated blood products were given in the 70s and 80s.
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Laboratories in China that wish to experiment on risky pathogenic microbes will now need official approval, say officials. Last March two lab workers caught the SARS virus at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Healthcare workers who handle patients with hard-to-find veins are getting a little help from a new device that offers something like X-ray vision to make precise needle sticks.
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For the second time in a year, people who received tendons, cartilage and other parts from donated cadavers are being urged to get tested for hepatitis and the AIDS virus because of scandals involving tissue suppliers.
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A public inquiry into an E.coli outbreak in south Wales in which a five-year-old boy died is to hold its first session.
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Health Minister Elvy Robichaud will know within days how many cases of C. difficile - a sometimes deadly bacteria already being blamed for one death in northern New Brunswick - are plaguing this province&#39;s hospitals.
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NEW YORK  - People with abnormalities in  the microvessels supplying blood to the heart -- an early stage  of coronary heart disease -- often show abnormal blood flow in  the fingertip, which can easily be picked up with a simple  test, new research suggests.
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Eighteen British troops are being tested over fears they may have been given contaminated blood.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may be able to determine the effectiveness of anti-angiogenic cancer drugs by measuring levels of a type of blood cell.
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Pretoria - Race was unacceptable in determining the health risk posed by donated blood, the department of health and the SA National Blood Transfusion Service decided in Pretoria on Friday.
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By Dan Davis, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  Feb. 10--Federal health officials want to further evaluate soil and water samples from some Carr Township properties.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is set to meet hepatitis patients at the centre of a high-profile scandal over tainted blood on Tuesday as he tries to quell a row that risks further eroding his support ratings.
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UK researchers have developed a way of using light to detect the presence of bacteria.
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A HOSPITAL has taken two years to tell hundreds of former patients they may be at risk of HIV or hepatitis. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London suspended a test in 2002 for fear it could spread deadly blood viruses.
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Srinagar, November 11: The inquiry team probing the alleged rape of a woman and her daughter by an Army officer at Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir has sent the blood samples of the accused and the victims to Central Forensic Laboratory (CFL) at Chandigarh
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Blood samples kept by a local GP could be the key to developing a single blood test to detect cancer.
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BEIJING China will conduct its nationwide survey to learn the extent of an AIDS epidemic stemming from the sale of blood, demanding that local governments find and test every person who has sold blood, officials said Thursday.