Weekly: Alzheimer’s from contaminated injections; Musk's Neuralink begins human trials; longest living dogs
#235 In very rare cases, Alzheimer’s disease could be transmitted from person to person during medical procedures. This finding comes as five people have developed the disease after receiving contaminated human growth hormone injections in the late 1950s to early 1980s – a practice that is now banned. What this…
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