'Academic Jealousy' Holding Up Efforts to Find Vcjd Treatments, Claims Ex-Chairman

The ScotsmanMarch 06, 2004

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EXPERTS monitoring the human form of mad cow disease were accused yesterday of letting "academic jealousy" hamper efforts to find improved treatments for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).

Despite being given the go-ahead two years ago, trials into drugs to treat the illness have yet to get off the ground because the vCJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh and the Medical Research Council (MRC) in London have been unable to agree how best to work together.

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'Academic Jealousy' Holding Up Efforts to Find Vcjd Treatments, Claims Ex-Chairman

The trials would encompass both vCJD - the human form of m...

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