Belfast CJD sufferer no longer seen as terminally ill
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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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Family and friends of a terminally-ill man who died in an assisted suicide will not face police action.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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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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TWO GPs accused of failing to spot &quot;extraordinary coincidences&quot; surrounding the deaths of Harold Shipman&#39;s patients have spoken of their relief after being cleared of serious professional conduct.
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Detectives questioned a man yesterday after the death of a suspected drugs carrier.   Nicola Jayne Last, a 40-year-old mother of one, was admitted to Llandough Hospital near Cardiff on Saturday morning suffering from a suspected overdose.
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The city medical examiner has ruled that the death of a retired police detective Â seen as one of the strongest cases to be linked to post-Sept. 11 illness Â was not caused by exposure to toxic dust while working at ground zero.
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A MAN with variant CJD is no longer terminally ill after being treated with an experimental drug following a legal battle. Schoolboy soccer star Jonathan Simms, 20 - diagnosed with the human
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The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international health scare by traveling while infected with tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease than previously diagnosed, a Denver hospital official said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK - A well-wisher from Chicago hoped he would have a speedy recovery. An admirer who had just read his autobiography felt it was like having a friend in the hospital...
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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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The statement, made yesterday, said he&#39;s known about his condition since 1998, when it was diagnosed during a bout with pneumonia.
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The condition of a Belfast missionary priest shot in South Africa has improved, his family says.
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Thousands of people have received letters warning they may be at increased risk of developing the incurable brain disease variant CJD as a result of medical treatment, it was announced yesterday.
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Keith Felcyn, a retired senior editor of BusinessWeek magazine who lives in Greenwich, Conn., had not been able to fully extend the little and ring fingers of his left hand for 20 years. But last month, it took 20 minutes for a doctor in Ontario, Ore., to reverse his Dupuytrenâs disease, a benign but ultimately disabling disorder in which the fascia of the hand thickens and draws the fingers permanently into the palm.
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Those caring for him at a Hindu monastery in Wales say he symbolizes the sanctity of all life and is an inspiration to temple-goers. Officials say he could have a contagious disease and should be put down.
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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.