The use of growth hormone supplements has seen a dramatic rise recently, particularly among athletes and bodybuilders. These supplements are designed to stimulate the body’s production of human ...

A new delivery system (Preci-Jet 50) which administers growth hormone through the skin using high pressure and without a needle was evaluated. This device was inconvenient and painful compared with a ...

Human growth hormone (HGH) is a hormone that’s essential to our development. Most people produce enough HGH throughout their lifetime. But for those with a deficiency in growth hormone (or a few ...

This condition occurs when your pituitary gland, a pea-size structure at the base of the brain, doesn’t make enough growth hormone. This hormone controls development of the body’s bones and organs.

In April, 1985, the FDA banned the distribution of pituitary growth hormone (hGH) because of the possibility that it was contaminated by a “slow virus”. All parents of children receiving hGH ...

Growth hormone treatment is a safe and effective therapy that’s often used to treat children and adults with a deficiency in human growth hormone (also known as HGH or somatropin). Naturally ...

It can be difficult for women to classify between normal and abnormal hair growth however certain indicators can aid in ...

Growth hormone (GH) is a substance in the body that helps kids grow and develop. It is made by the pituitary gland, a small gland between the lobes of the brain. GH deficiency happens when the body ...

In contrast to children, neonates have high serum growth hormone (GH) levels during the first week of life. If normative data were available, this phenomenon might enable diagnosis of GH ...