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Are puberty blockers extracted from the brain matter of cadavers?
Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
My mom developed an allergy to eggs after a blood transfusion. She long regretted never being able to eat another chocolate eclair.
That’s nuts. Seems like researchers should look really closely at weird side effects of blood transfusions since these are effectively “natural experiments” that would be impossible or unethical to run normally.
They do. These incidences are rare, but documented, and researched.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-peanut-aller...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562830/
It looks like the allergy isn't permanent though.
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#64New prion diseases are being found in other animals and might evolve to enter humans. There is a deer version being watched - not yet found in people, AFAWK? https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/index.html There have been many cases of assorted Human Papilloma viruses (HPV) transmitted by kissing as well as assorted variances of oral sex. Recent vaccines are very effective. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/public/index…
What do these two things have to do with each other?
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Puberty blockers have bene in use for about 40 years now. If it takes another 20 or 30 years to determine that it was a bad idea then the consequences must have turned out to be pretty mild.
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I'm not sure it's anywhere as widespread as you think it is, or why it's relevant to this apart from "it too involves medicine" and, well, people are researching medical interventions longitudinally full-time, so I suspect it'll be analysed accordingly. Interesting that you've prejudged it to be clearly bad, I'd wait for scientific evidence of that.
Scientific evidence is already emerging: https://archive.is/lUUQi
Big time issues with bone density. People in their 20s breaking hips and developing osteoporosis. That's not okay.
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#67Slightly more clickbaity title than the BBC's "Medicine stopped in 1980s linked to rare Alzheimer's cases"[0] which also says "The findings do not mean Alzheimer's is infectious - you cannot catch it from contact with people who have it... The researchers say all of the people in their study had been treated as a child with cadaver-derived human growth hormone, or c-hGH, that was contaminated with brain proteins that…
I didn't find it clickbaity at all. The contents of the article were exactly what I expected based on the headline, and I didn't know this was possible. The really interesting thing here is that Alzheimer's seems to be transmissible from person to person via biological material. The BBC headline you quoted, "Medicine stopped in 1980s linked to rare Alzheimer's cases", totally buries the lede and is borderline mislead…
I didn't either, and I didn't even read the article. The headline was actually dead on factual for me.
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#68There is a line of research into the "transmissible' phenomena of a lot of these neurodegen dz. Epidemiologically, it's probably not infectious from one person to another bc we don't see spouses getting PD or AD often. But there's interesting phenomena - i.e. one of the Parkinson's stem cell implantation trials got a lot of press after the trial (which failed, didn't show benefit) bc after subjects passed several yea…
I guess if your brain proteins are mixing with someone elses you normally have a bigger issue.
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#69weird that the bulk of patients are in france and UK, does that indicate diet?
All the researchers are all UK based, and the UK became verrrry interested in prion diseases due to a very bad habit UK agriculture had gotten into of incorporating culled animals (other cattle, which furthered the spread, but the ultimate cause was likely grinding up sheep infected with scrapies, an ovine spongiform encephalopathy) supplementary cattle feed for animals later eaten by humans which led to the CJD outbreak in the UK. European agriculture also had a similar bad habit, but maybe less sheep or scrapies or something?
France probably imported British beef and so were affected also. They certainly banned it the longest afterwards.
And I was about to do the usual Kiwi thing of "Just let the cows eat grass, duh", but every Western country tends to supplementary feed dairy cows, including mine, except we prefer to use palm kernel, thus promoting deforestation in Borneo, yay!
But it turns out a lot of British beef comes from their dairy herds, so "just feed the beef cattle grass" wouldn't have helped.
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That depends on if you are familiar with the concept of trade-offs and recognize that the alternatives could have been worse.
Not sure I want to dignify your snarky response but are you implying that there are only two possibilities; suicide or taking a handful of pills with untold consequences?