FDA bans UK blood donation

Article Abstract:

An advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to prohibit donations from those who lived in or traveled to the United Kingdom during 1980-96, with the accumulated time in the country that would trigger the prohibition still under consideration. The Department of Health and Human Services is considering the FDA panel's suggestion. Evidence that new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD) is caused by using blood or plasma is scarce, but fear of an nvCJD epidemic has inspired the decision, although the blood supply is low. What is and is not known about bovine spongiform encephalopathy, nvCFD, and humans is reviewed.

United Kingdom, Italy, United States, Prevention, Practice, Physiological aspects, Quality management, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Blood, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, United States. Food and Drug Administration, Blood banks

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Few state tobacco dollars to go to control

Article Abstract:

Only 6 of the 27 states that will receive money from the tobacco settlement have promised to spend at least 25% of the money on tobacco control measures. The CDC estimates that states would have to spend a total of $8 billion to 21 billion over the next 5 years to put tobacco control measures in place.

Product liability, Tobacco industry, Products liability, Tobacco

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Apathy in geriatric cancer research

Article Abstract:

The National Cancer Institute-sponsored North Central Treatment Group at the Mayo Clinic hopes to begin clinical trials of cancer treatments in the elderly. Sixty percent of American cancer patients are over 65 and Congress hopes to ensure Medicare coverage for clinical trials.

Aged, Elderly, Research, Demographic aspects, Diseases, Cancer, Geriatrics

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