Families of victims of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, are each to receive an interim compensation payment of £25,000, the Government announced today.

Plasma donations were paused in 1998 due to fears over the spread of a human variant of vCJD - commonly referred to as mad ...

Plasma donations were paused in 1998 due to fears over the spread of a human variant of vCJD - commonly referred to as mad cow disease.

Design Since May 1997, the authors have performed active surveillance to search for variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (vCJD) among the many diseases that cause neurological deterioration in children, ...

Giving blood is something I’ve done since I was old enough and regularly did in the United Kingdom before coming here in 1988 ...

Donations are used to create plasma-derived medicines to treat conditions such as immune deficiencies, bleeding disorders and ...

This is important as delay makes enrolment to clinical trials futile because of highly advanced disease. If a diagnosis ... The population comprised 91 sCJD, 7 vCJD, 2 iCJD and 3 IPD patients.

In a groundbreaking development, the first NHS patients in a generation have begun receiving life-saving plasma from UK ...

The first NHS patients in a generation have started to receive life saving plasma from the blood of UK donors. Treatments will help save 17,000 NHS ...

The UK banned the use of domestically collected blood plasma for fractionation due to concerns about the potential risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). This human neurodegenerative ...

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