Posts Tagged ‘science journalism’

Can you catch Alzheimer’s disease during surgery?

Posted on September 11th, 2015 by healthte

Lots of crazy reporting today about people catching Alzheimer’s during surgery. Some shameless outlets engaging in downright scaremongering as usual. So what are the facts: Professor John Collinge, a world leading scientist in prion diseases (eg: mad cow disease) which spreads via a rogue protein and his group dissected a bunch of brains of people […]

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