Health Alert for Fatal Brain-Wasting Disease in Australia
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One of Australia&#39;s major hospitals fears its operating rooms may have been contaminated with a fatal brain-wasting disease. Royal Melbourne Hospital is contacting over a thousand patients who had brain or spinal surgery there in the past 18 months.
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Scientists say a system is needed to monitor the spread of a potentially fatal form of drug-resistant E.coli.
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A health alert is declared in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia after an outbreak of dengue fever.
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INTERNATIONAL health authorities have warned that the world is overdue for a major influenza pandemic, which could strike Australia and kill thousands.
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AUSTRALIA is to join a new World Health Organisation initiative to create a &quot;culture of safety&quot; in health care amid concerns that one in 10 hospital patients are victims of preventable medical mistakes.
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Seeking to put Alzheimer&#39;s disease on the same footing as cancer and heart disease, health officials are embarking on a landmark initiative that regularly will scan the brains and analyze the bodily fluids of 800 people.
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ATLANTA Oct. 1, 2004 - Emory University officials sent warning letters to more than 500 surgery patients at the school&#39;s medical center after a brain surgery patient tested positive for a fatal disease similar to the human version of mad cow disease.
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THOUSANDS of people, including 120 in Scotland, have been warned they may have been exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through contaminated blood products.
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Warnings could be introduced after analysis confirms high levels of bacteria and viruses.
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The Independent Blood Council remains concerned that Australians could have contracted the &#39;monkey virus&#39; from polio vaccinations in the 1950s and 60s.
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Deaths from brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neuron disease appear to have soared in the past two decades in the world's most developed nations, and researchers are blaming the increase ...
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New questions arose on Friday about a cluster of deaths believed to be from a rare brain disease in a single county in upstate New York when tests
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CAMPAIGNERS hope that shocking statistics on the global epidemic of heart disease and strokes will prompt countries to take action to reduce risks to health.
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A 26-year-old Thai woman who died of acute pneumonia on 20 September was a âprobableâ case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Thai Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Tuesday.
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The Queensland state government in Australia is cracking down on unhygienic restaurants and caterers who breach the Food Act.  State Health minister Stephen Robertson says unsafe food suppliers will be named and shamed on the Queensland government Health Web site.
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Australians over the age of 65 were expected Sunday to benefit from the government&#39;s latest health initiative. Prime Minister John Howard announced Sunday in Sydney an increase
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A19 of the Nov. 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This was the Department of Health&#39;s advice yesterday to the public over the