Human Growth Foundation

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The Human Growth Foundation is a nonprofit group that works with people with growth deficiencies.[1] It is financed mainly by Genentech and Caremark. In 1994 it published a study that concluded that 20,000 children needed human growth hormone because of their growth deficiencies.[2]

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  1. ^ Melody Petersen (2009). Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-0-312-42825-9.
  2. ^ "Selling Growth Drug for Children: The Legal and Ethical Questions". New York Times. August 15, 1994. Retrieved 2011-03-25.

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