UK tells blood-product recipients about possible vCJD risk
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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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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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Scientists develop a technique they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD) in humans.
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Medical tests on a young Irishman have confirmed that he is suffering from variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease, a Dublin hospital spokesman revealed.
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LONDON: The United Kingdom has exported to 'at least 11 countries' blood products at risk of contamination with the prion responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow ...
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Johnson &amp; Johnson 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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People on anti-HIV drug Viracept are being warned batches of the drug may have been infected with cancer-causing chemicals.
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Six thousand people are to be told they may have been exposed to the human form of mad cow disease through blood products, the government says.
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Giving blood transfusions to patients  with acute heart problems nearly triples the risk they will die  or suffer a heart attack within a month, a study said on  Tuesday.
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Transfusions of blood products might help to cut deaths in a future flu pandemic, research suggests.
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Thousands of people were told yesterday that they might have been infected with the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy through contaminated blood plasma products.
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People who use the drug Remicade for rheumatoid arthritis may be at increased risk of a serious blood disorder, the US Food and Drug Administration warned.
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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 HOSPITAL has taken two years to tell hundreds of former patients they may be at risk of HIV or hepatitis. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London suspended a test in 2002 for fear it could spread deadly blood viruses.
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Six thousand Britons are to be told they  may have been exposed to the human form of mad cow disease  through blood products, the government said on Tuesday.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals was on high alert today over fears that a form of CJD suffered by one of its patients may have been transmitted to others via surgical instruments.
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Patients with hemophilia and other blood-clotting disorders face an uncertain though probably very low risk of contracting the human form of mad cow disease from medicines made using donated plasma, health officials said Monday.