S. Korean hospital workers threaten to strike over wages, possible US beef sales. South Korean union workers have demanded that hospitals not serve American beef because of safety concerns. They also wants wage hikes, the hiring of more workers, and improved working conditions. [News Source]

Officials dismiss mad cow worries. An elderly woman on Cape Cod has tested positive for a rare degenerative brain disease, but state health officials said yesterday there is no reason to believe it is the human variant of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Dead man’s brain tested for mad cow disease. The brain of a Corpus Corpus man who died earlier this month was tested for a human form of mad cow disease, health officials said. [News Source]

Massachusetts Woman Tested For Mad Cow (CBS News) An elderly patient in a Cape Cod hospital has tested positive for a degenerative brain disorder, but officials say she's not showing signs of a variant linked to mad cow disease. [News Source]

Massachusetts patient tested for mad cow disease (Waxahachie Daily Light) BOSTON (AP) _ Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigating whether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Correction: Mad Cow-Testing story (Las Vegas Sun) Tue, Jul 22, 2008 (8:18 a.m.) In the headline for a July 20 story about a patient with a degenerative brain illness, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the patient was being tested for mad cow disease. [News Source]

Correction: Mad Cow-Testing story (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) BOSTON - In the headline for a July 20 story about a patient with a degenerative brain illness, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the patient was being tested for mad cow disease. [News Source]

Correction: Mad Cow-Testing story (AP via Yahoo! News) In the headline for a July 20 story about a patient with a degenerative brain illness, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the patient was being tested for mad cow disease. The patient was tested for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has a variant attributed to mad cow disease, as explained in the story. [News Source]

Brain of dead man being tested for mad cow disease (News 8 Austin) Health officials in Corpus Christi said they should have the results in two months from tests run on the brain of a dead man who is suspected of having mad cow disease. [News Source]

Brain of dead man being tested for mad cow disease (News 8 Austin) CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Health officials in Corpus Christi said they should have the results in two months from tests run on the brain of a dead man who is suspected of having mad cow disease. [News Source]