Warning goes out over CJD risk
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A frightening warning is going out to 15,000 people who could be at risk of carrying the human form of mad cow disease. Health officials say the letters are to inform all those patients who received blood
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Christchurch Hospital is urging people with vomiting and diarrhoea to stay away from its emergency department (ED) as it battles to contain an outbreak of norovirus.
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The morning commute can be a lot more hazardous to your health than you might think. Researchers in Germany say people prone to heart attack face triple the usual risk just after they&#39;ve commuted.
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A string of deaths caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain malady, in upstate New York has led a community to become increasingly concerned.
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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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Relatively few deaths from variant CJD will be caused by infected blood, scientists suggest.
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The risks to the Chicago Board of Trade's futures trading business from a proposed takeover by IntercontinentalExchange Inc.  could be catastrophic, given the hostile bidder's current technology, officials at parent CBOT Holdings Inc.  told members on Wednesday.
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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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People displaying symptoms of the norovirus - vomiting and diarrhoea â-re being asked to stay away from the emergency department at Christchurch Hospital.
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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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The outbreak that struck a family in Indonesia may have been more dangerous than originally believed, a new report says
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Experts are warning of a link between jacuzzis and the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease.
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An expert warns vCJD could become endemic in the UK unless blood screening is introduced.
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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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Experts say patients given blood contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease face substantial risk.
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Chiron Corp. , which had to scrap its flu vaccine this season due to contamination, said on Friday it has received a warning from US regulators in connection with its shuttered vaccine manufacturing plant in England.
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Environmentalists have cautioned that four wheeled drives designed for use in the deserts or the open countryside should now come with cigarette packet-style statutory warnings.