Hospital calms fear of CJD in Victoria
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MARK COLVIN: Royal Melbourne Hospital is trying to calm the public&#39;s fears after a patient died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.
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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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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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More than 460 people in Northern Ireland are being warned that they could have been exposed to vCJD through blood plasma products.
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THE lives of the 1056 people exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at the Royal Melbourne Hospital will never be the same. They now have a moral obligation to inform every hospital, doctor and dentist they
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DUBLIN - A patient at a hospital in Dublin is suffering from what is believed to be Ireland&#39;s first locally contracted case of the human form of mad cow disease.
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More than 1000 people who underwent brain or spinal surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in Australia, over the past 18 months have been warned by hospital officials that they may have been exposed to the brain wasting disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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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 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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The respiratory illness outbreak at the Caritas Medical Centre has been confirmed to be parainfluenza virus type 4, the Centre for Health Protection says.
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Relatively few deaths from variant CJD will be caused by infected blood, scientists suggest.
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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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Doctors say patients timid about having surgeries for fear of pain shouldn't put it off: A new focus on patient comfort and advances in pain management are making many procedures nearly pain-free.
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UK scientists are upwardly revising their estimates of the number of people likely to die from new variant CJD (vCJD, also known as mad cow disease). It follows the death of a second patient, who contracted the disease after a ...
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VANCOUVER - One of two Vancouver hospitals hit with an outbreak of the highly infectious Norwalk-type virus believe they have it under control.
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PATIENTS suffering from chest pain have been offered an unusual cure - putting on a pair of vibrating trousers. The Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle is one of the first in the country to start treating patients
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Scores of patients at the V.A. hospital in Albany were put at risk, and employees say bigger concerns were dismissed by officials.