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Disease was passed on to children given growth hormones in 1980s
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Disease was passed on to children given growth hormones in 1980s
The practice of injecting children with growth hormone extracted from the brains of deceased people was abandoned long ago – with good reason.
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.
Five people are believed to have developed symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, despite being aged just 38 to 55, after receiving treatment with a tainted human growth hormone.
Five Alzheimer's cases were tied to a growth hormone treatment that was once used for various causes of short stature but is no longer used.