Medicine stopped in 1980s linked to rare Alzheimer's cases
Contaminated injections of growth hormone may have caused five rare cases of dementia, scientists think.
Source: bbc.com
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Contaminated injections of growth hormone may have caused five rare cases of dementia, scientists think.
Handful of patients who received human growth hormone from deceased donors in now-banned practice went on to develop signs
Contaminated injections of growth hormone may have caused five rare cases of dementia, scientists think.
A growth hormone given to children — which was banned in 1985 — has been shown to have caused the development of Alzheimers on a toxic protein