Word: dwarfism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week the school was the classroom for a course in hereditary disease sponsored by the National Foundation-March of Dimes and attended by 100 research specialists from most of the top U.S. medical schools and research institutions. The results were highlighted by two significant reports: on dwarfism (see following story), and on the possible prevention of muscular dystrophy...
...Betty has grown almost eight inches. Now 14, she is only about four inches short of the U.S. average. With her arthritis quiescent, she is still growing. The dramatic change took place because Betty is the first childhood arthritis patient to be treated, as a few victims of pituitary dwarfism* have been, with one of the most maddeningly hard-to-get substances known to medicine: human growth hormone...