A handful of patients developed the condition after undergoing a now-banned procedure.
, this was used to treat at least 1,848 people in the UK between 1959 and 1985, and used for cases of short stature., and either had already been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or would otherwise meet the diagnostic criteria for this condition; another person met criteria for mild cognitive impairment.
The lead author of the research, Professor John Collinge, Director of the UCL Institute of Prion Diseases and a consultant neurologist at UCLH,: “We’re not suggesting for a moment you can catch Alzheimer’s disease. This is not transmissible in the sense of a viral or bacterial infection,
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