Word: dwarfism
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Similar trials of recombinant DNA-produced human growth hormones received FDA approval and began in February at Stanford Medical School. This protein, with its potential for curing dwarfism and possibly fractured bones, will first be tested for safety in 20-day trials on adult volunteers and then in a one-year study of effectiveness that will follow...
Another scarce drug now bubbling out of Genentech's stainless-steel fermentation vat is human growth hormone, used to treat dwarfism. Only limited quantities have been available, most of it extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers. In a test of the hormone, 20 youngsters are currently getting doses of bacterially produced HGH at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children...