The need for blood is constant, and every day lives are saved thanks to the generosity of blood donors. With a law change ...

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.

Haemophiliacs who fear they have been exposed to plasma derived from a blood donor later found to have vCJD, the human form of mad cow disease, have been urged to contact their doctors.

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

Researchers in the United Kingdom have reported the country's second case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) thought to be associated with blood transfusion. The patient involved had a ...

The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...

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

A large-scale study looking for the existence of the abnormal prion protein (PrP CJD) associated with variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) in discarded human tonsils has found no samples ...

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.