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Sperm and egg donors face new screens to slash risk of passing on CJD to women and children
Hopeful sperm, embryo and egg donors face new screens to cut the chances of passing on the human form of mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), to infertile women and their children.Medical experts have brought out...
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Study looks at Fatal Familiar Insomnia
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Amorfix announces vCJD blood test breakthrough
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IDPH: CJD cases rare, but do occur in Iowa
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CJD survivor still defying the odds
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FDA planning to ban cattle brains, spinal cords from all animal feed
Federal authorities are accepting comments on a planned regulation that would prohibit use of some cattle tissues in all animal feeds by late April.The regulation published by the Food and Drug Administration is intended to reduce the...
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