The human growth hormone business is a $2 billion industry. Feb. 12, 2008— -- Marie Miano, like some professional athletes, takes human growth hormone — but she has a prescription. "I feel like a ...

Five people appear to have developed Alzheimer’s disease after receiving growth hormones from deceased donors’ brains as children. Although based on a small group of people, this suggests that the ...

Children with growth disturbance could be offered a new weekly treatment as an alternative to daily injections. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended somatrogon ...

Prescriptions for the so-called “make you taller” human growth hormone (HGH) injections, commonly referred to as “height growth shots,” reached an all-time high in 2024, while reports of serious side ...

The FDA approved long-acting injectable somatrogon (Ngenla) for pediatric human growth hormone deficiency, developers Pfizer and OPKO Health announced this week. Somatrogon is indicated for children ...

Five patients in the United Kingdom have developed Alzheimer’s disease that appears to be the result of contaminated injections they received as children decades ago, according to a new study that ...

A UCL study has revealed that five children treated with growth hormone injections went on to develop early-onset Alzheimer’s - Getty The story was one of the biggest medical scandals of the second ...

Skytrofa is a long-acting form of somatropin. Somatropin is also called human growth hormone. Skytrofa is also considered a pegylated somatropin product. Pegylated means the medication is attached to ...

Should a child who is short but otherwise perfectly healthy be given growth hormones to make him or her taller? That’s the question facing thousands of parents in the wake of the Food and Drug ...

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Male testosterone levels are on a steady decline, but we can change that. By optimizing your human growth hormone, you can optimize your levels of testosterone as well. By 2045 it is predicted that ...