{"id":22390,"date":"2024-01-30T07:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22390"},"modified":"2024-01-30T07:59:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:59:03","slug":"scientists-document-first-ever-transmitted-alzheimers-cases-tied-to-no-longer-used-medical-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22390","title":{"rendered":"Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer\u2019s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Andrew Joseph for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON \u2014 There was something odd about these Alzheimer\u2019s cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of it was the patients\u2019 presentations: Some didn\u2019t have the classic symptoms of the condition. But it was also that the patients were in their 40s and 50s, even their 30s, far younger than people who normally develop the disease. They didn\u2019t even have the known genetic mutations that can set people on the course for such early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/01\/29\/first-transmitted-alzheimers-disease-cases-growth-hormone-cadavers\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/01\/29\/first-transmitted-alzheimers-disease-cases-growth-hormone-cadavers\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"21\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:&nbsp;<\/strong>The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) LONDON \u2014 There was something odd about these Alzheimer\u2019s cases. Part of it was the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[116,1117,118,1116],"class_list":["post-22390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease","tag-dementia","tag-early-onset-alzheimers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22391,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22390\/revisions\/22391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}