Changes in Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Prescribing Information (PES D & T Committee 2008)

Members of the Drug and Therapeutics Committee of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society describe the changes in the prescribing information for the different forms of
rhGH.

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Growth Hormone (GH) Treatment to Final Height in Children with Idiopathic Short Stature: Evidence for a Dose Effect (The Journal of Pediatrics)

An open-label randomized study analyzing the effect of two doses of growth hormone (GH) on final height and height velocity during the first 2 years of treatment of children with idiopathic short stature.

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Effect of Growth Hormone Treatment on Adult Height in Peripubertal Children with Idiopathic Short Stature: A Randomized, Doubleblind, Placebo-Controlled Trial (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism)

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses Describing the Effect of Growth Hormone Treatment on Adult Height of Children with Idiopathic Short Stature

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Growth Hormone Treatment and Neoplasia – Coincidence or Consequence? (JCEM 2007)

The LWPES Writing Committee presents a special editorial on whether there is an association of growth hormone treatment and neoplasia.

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Historic Value: Standards from Birth to Maturity for Height, Weight, Height Velocity, and Weight Velocity: British Children (Part II) 1965

The origin of growth charts: part 2.

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Historic Value: Standards from Birth to Maturity for Height, Weight, Height Velocity, and Weight Velocity: British Children (Part 1) 1965

The origin of growth charts: part 1.

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Historic Value: Treatment of Short Stature in Children and Adolescents with Human Pituitary Growth Hormone

The first paper from 1964 describing treatment of 35 children with short stature with human growth hormone.

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