Girls may be less likely than boys to have their short height checked out for possible medical causes, at least among poor kids, a new study suggests. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Menarche marks a major turning point in female development and usually signals that only limited height gain remains.

Giving girls with Turner syndrome low doses of estrogen, as well as growth hormone, years before the onset of puberty, increases their height and offers a wealth of other benefits, say a team of ...

A study of more than 117,000 Danish women provides the most convincing evidence yet of a link between a girl’s growth rate and her risk of developing breast cancer later in life. The report, published ...

Using growth hormone to make short kids taller isn’t the first time medicine has sought to manipulate the height of healthy children. Estrogen treatment to halt female growth -- recently in the news ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Giving girls with Turner’s syndrome low-dose estrogen in combination with growth hormone years before the onset ...

Giving girls with Turner syndrome low doses of estrogen, as well as growth hormone, years before the onset of puberty, increases their height and offers a wealth of other benefits, say a team of ...