Word: dwarfism
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Another learning experience for me was my involvement in UNICEF's campaign to eliminate iodine-deficiency disorders. Like most people, I had never heard of this problem, which causes stillbirth, dwarfism and low IQ but is easily prevented by eating iodized salt...
...Thousands of young Chinese women and a few men are taking advantage of a surgical procedure originally developed in Russia to help patients with legs disfigured by accidents or birth defects, such as dwarfism. While Western hospitals tend to perform the difficult surgery only for medical reasons, the number of Chinese hospitals offering the profitable procedure for cosmetic purposes has mushroomed. Many clinics have year-long waiting lists. The surgery's popularity is abetted by requirements that exclude short citizens from dozens of fields, from flight attendants to government translators. In a country that has hundreds of qualified applicants...
...will figure on the podium. Human growth hormone is a naturally occurring amino acid. It controls the release of IGF-1, which helps maintain growth rates from birth to adulthood. Genetically engineered hGH, available since 1985, was developed for people with growth-hormone deficiency, such as children with dwarfism...
...important in the expression of BPAD, though how big a role they play is anyone's guess. Dwarves born in to families where BPAD is common rarely develop the disease, despite the challenges they face in life that could easily act as environmental triggers. It seems that the dwarfism gene confers resistance upon carriers to the BPAD genes that they might also have...
...Sick Children in Toronto. Every so often he puts in a stint at the Hospital for Crippled Children in Bombay, but it is not just these young patients who lure him back to India. The doctor has developed an interest in finding a genetic marker for a form of dwarfism; to pursue his research he must draw blood from dwarfs, and a good supply of these can be found among the clowns who perform at the various circuses in and around Bombay...