CJD death 'is no cause for panic'
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A mysterious case of CJD raises the possibility of a new group of people falling prey to the illness.
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Former Pakistani cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered but died of natural causes, Jamaican police said Tuesday.
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The exact cause of death couldn't be determined but there was no sign of "surgical or anesthetic misadventure" in the death of Donda West, Kanye West's mother, a coroner's report said Thursday.
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A Dutch report encourages doctors to report cases of child euthanasia without fear of prosecution.
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BRITAIN could be sitting on a CJD timebomb because thousands of people might be carrying the fatal brain disease without knowing it.
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Former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died of natural causes, and was not murdered as initially suspected, Jamaican police said on Tuesday, bringing to an embarrassing close a three-month investigation that had gripped the cricket world.
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A British man suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease is no longer terminal ill, thanks to an experimental medical treatment, his father said.
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A British man suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, is no longer terminally ill thanks to an experimental medical treatment, his father says.
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A man is being treated in a Dublin hospital with a suspected case of new variant CJD.
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A 20-year-old Belfast man appears to be winning his battle against variant CJD after undergoing experimental treatment over the past two years.
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No one is immune to the human form of mad cow disease, variant CJD, new research suggests today. Some people whose genetic make-up normally acts as a barrier
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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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hospital, and his doctors say he would have risked a &quot;substantial&quot; heart attack without the operation. an operation, Chief of Cardiology Allan Schwartz of New York-Presbyterian Hospital told a news conference on Monday.
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Patients who may have received a blood plasma transfusion from an individual who later developed CJD are to receive letters informing them that they may be &quot;at risk&quot;.
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THE brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is rare, and the risk of person-to-person infection is even rarer. But 1056 people who have had neurosurgery over the past 18 months at Royal Melbourne Hospital have cause to be very worried.
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NEW YORK  - Patients who suffer cardiac arrest while in the hospital and are successfully resuscitated may not live for very long, a study suggests. However, those who receive internal cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have a significant advantage, it seems.
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A New York police detective died of  lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure  to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade  Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical  examiner said on Thursday.