Patients' vCJD risk 'substantial'
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Experts say patients given blood contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease face substantial risk.
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Chief Executive William Weldon&#39;s Johnson &amp; Johnson (nyse: JNJ - news - people ) on Friday said it&#39;s warning doctors that patients taking its rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade may have a higher risk of the blood cancer lymphoma.
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Heart disease is Britain' biggest single killer disease but more people are more worried about developing Alzheimer's or cancer, according to a survey released on Friday.
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Scientists show how the proteins that cause vCJD bypass the body's defences and enter the bloodstream.
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Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N is warning  doctors that patients taking its rheumatoid arthritis drug  Remicade may have a higher risk of lymphoma, a blood cancer,  the company said on Friday.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested. But Medical Research Council experts, writing in Science, say BSE may also manifest itself as sporadic CJD.
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Cardiac pacemakers could help reduce the high incidence of sudden death among those with epilepsy, a British study indicates. Four of 20 patients monitored for up to 22
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Users of an anti-arthritis drug linked by a study to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes are urged not to panic.
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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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Elson So, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues report their findings in the Nov. 9 issue of the journal Neurology.
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Mike Waites Health Correspondent, SCIENTISTS have identified a new strain of vCJD which could strike people previously unaffected by the disease.
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Five hundred and ninety-six patients, from seven countries (Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom) were included in this retrospective analysis* of patients who originally ...
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NEW YORK  - Treatment with high doses of  medicinal steroids (aka, glucocorticoids) more than doubles the  risk of cardiovascular disease, new research suggests.
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Robert B. Saper, MD, MPH ; Stefanos N. Kales, MD, MPH ; Janet Paquin, PhD ; Michael J. Burns, MD ; David M. Eisenberg, MD ; Roger B. Davis, ScD ; Russell S. Phillips, MD.
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Neurologists urge caution upon reports of a successful therapy.
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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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A haemophiliac who has been told he may develop vCJD after receiving blood from a donor who later died of the disease yesterday said the Government should be held to account for the blunder.