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The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say.

Alzheimer’s disease was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses, scientists have shown for the first time.

The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say.

The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating the disease, researchers say.

The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating the disease, researchers say.

Alzheimer's can be transmitted from person to person, a study shows - patients given a growth hormone from dead donors now have the disease.

New research links at least five cases of early-onset Alzheimer's to a medical procedure contaminated with rogue proteins.

Five people who received treatment with cadaver-sourced human pituitary-derived growth hormone during childhood developed early Alzheimer’s disease.

Five people who were treated as children with cadaver-derived human growth hormone (c-hGH) developed symptoms of dementia when they were aged between 36 and 55, new research suggests.

The findings may have important implications for understanding and treating the disease, researchers say.