Patients facing 'substantial' vCJD risk
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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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NEW YORK  - People with type 2 diabetes or elevated blood sugar are at increased risk of dying after being hospitalized for pneumonia, a new study hints.
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WASHINGTON : A gene may protect some people from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human brain wasting form of mad cow disease, researchers said on Thursday.
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Blood donation restrictions were tightened today after warnings in Britain that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusions. Anyone who lived in Britain for more than one year between 1980 and 1996 will not be able to give blood from November.
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IT would be almost impossible to remove the remote risk of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a Tasmanian neurosurgeon said yesterday.
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The Haemophilia Society has issued an information pack to its members about vCJD today to allay fears over the Governmentâs announcement that they will be sending letters
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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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.
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ELEANOR HALL: A Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease scare has erupted in a major Melbourne hospital this morning. The Royal Melbourne Hospital has contacted more than 1,000 patients after the disease was discovered.
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MARK COLVIN: Melbourne&#39;s Royal Children&#39;s Hospital was given the all clear this evening to resume neurosurgery, after a day of uncertainty over whether to destroy neurosurgical equipment in the wake of yesterday&#39;s Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease scare.
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A university hospital on Thursday confirmed a 47-year-old man from Taegu had contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the fatal neuro-degenerative illness that causes mental disorder and destroys memory.
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NEW YORK  - People who have been infected  with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) -- the variety that  usually causes 'cold sores' rather than genital infections --  appear to have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes,  according to a report from China.
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Intensive-care doctors monitor patients from miles away. Also: Vioxx might be responsible for more deaths than thought.... New network in southern India gives government a big boost.... and more.
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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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A prominent hospital in Melbourne, Australia, has told more than 1 000 former brain and spinal patients that they may be at slight risk of a rare, fatal brain disease, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
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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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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