Unintended Consequences: Human Growth Hormone and Protein-Misfolding Diseases: A Historical Perspective

By Kelly Horvath

October 16, 2025

From the pages of the Journal of the Endocrine Society, Endocrine News talks with Alan Rogol, MD, PhD, about the rarest of rare cases that involved growth hormone, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and Alzheimer disease in a tale through time that involves rats, cadavers, and how one treatment evolved through scientific refinement. Has there ever been a […]

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