NBC News (1/29, Szabo ) reports, “Five patients in the United Kingdom have developed Alzheimer’s disease that appears to be the result of contaminated injections they received as children decades ago, according to a new study” published in Nature Medicine. Those “five patients received injections of human growth hormone from cadavers for several years as a treatment for very short stature, according to the study.”
But, “what the scientists didn’t realize at the time…was that in some cases, another substance was extracted as well, contaminating the batches: amyloid-beta protein.”
Related Links:
— “Decades-old human growth hormone treatments linked to five cases of early Alzheimer’s,” Liz Szabo, NBC News, January 29, 2024