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The people of New Guinea have long tried to shed the cannibal label. While there have been documented cases of cannibalism among tribes on the island, the use of the stereotype has as much to do with European ideas on race and civilisation.

In a groundbreaking small study, researchers identified individuals with Alzheimers disease whose condition was actually initiated by a medical procedure. Alzheimers disease is partially attributed to the slow buildup of amyloid-beta and tau proteins in the

Researchers emphasized that dementia is "not contagious" and these were "extraordinary occurrences."

Researchers emphasized that dementia is "not contagious" and these were "extraordinary occurrences."

Can Alzheimer’s disease be caused by the use of growth hormone treatments? Well, scientists from University College London (UCL) seem to think so. They uncovered eight cases of Alzheimer’s disease that the scientists believe to have arisen as a result of such medical treatments provided decades earlier. Five of these people had symptoms of dementia, […]

Researchers emphasized that dementia is "not contagious" and these were "extraordinary occurrences."

A study had found five people whod been injected with now-banned growth treatments in the 1980s had gone on to develop early-onset dementia.

Researchers say they've documented the first ever cases of Alzheimer's disease being transmitted between humans — though they note this only occurs in extremely rare and unusual circumstances. Their findings, published as a study in the journal Nature Medicine, detail how eight adult patients likely acquired the disease through a banned medical procedure performed on […]

There is growing evidence suggesting that a medical treatment used between 1959 and 1985 could potentially be linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease.

The study provides the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease in living people that appears to have been medically acquired and due to transmission of the amyloid-beta protein.