Hope over jab for lethal NHS bug
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UK scientists are developing a vaccine to combat the life-threatening Clostridium difficile hospital bug.
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A discovery about how the virus which causes diarrhoea invades cells could help vaccine development, say scientists.
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Science & environment: A rare but highly infectious outbreak of Q fever being investigated after 28 people in Gloucestershire contract bug spread by livestock.
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The UK Government has warned that there could be a shortage of a frontline NHS painkiller over the next few weeks. Doctors have been urged to ration the use of diamorphine, only treating very sick patients
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A suspected new case of foot-and-mouth is investigated in Hampshire.
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Parents urged to get children vaccinated after figures showed number of cases had more than trebled over last 11 weeks.
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Ministers say they are getting to grips with hospital bugs as they set out measures in the fight against them.
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A vaccine to prevent a dangerous infection that often strikes cystic fibrosis patients is feasible, but needs more development, German researchers report.
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News of an effective vaccine against malaria being developed is certainly a shot in the arm for the fight against this disease which kills over a million children and infects an estimated 300 million annually.
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It recalls a solution that might be linked to a rare infection.
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Scientists next month will begin human testing of a vaccine to combat a possible flu pandemic that experts have warned could kill as many as seven million people, a Hong Kong newspaper reported today.
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Â· Lord Owen claims officials knew of hepatitis risk Â· 1,700 dead and many terminally ill after blunder
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been struck down by a highly infectious stomach bug that swept the United Kingdom during the holiday period, doctors said on Thursday.
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They have reported promising results from a test vaccine that could slash the death toll. 30 per cent and more than halved the risk of getting severe malaria, which can be fatal.
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Health experts and drugs companies on Friday urged rich countries to come up with public funding to spur development of a human vaccine against a pandemic strain of the bird flu virus that could kill millions of people around the world within months.
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After 50 years of failure, a vaccine against malaria could be in sight, raising hopes of slashing the death toll from a disease that kills more than a million people, mostly babies and pregnant women, every year.
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An expert who treated numerous bird flu victims in Vietnam has urged doctors not to lose hope with patients who are admitted late to hospital as there is still a good chance that they can survive.