Get ready for some really tall rich people
This requires six shots a week for years… but I bet it can be delivered transdermally (think anti-smoking patches).
A Hormone to Help Youths Grow Is Approved by F.D.A.By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, July 26 (AP) - Children who are healthy but abnormally short will be able to have injections of growth hormone in hope of gaining one to three more inches of height, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday, deciding an emotionally charged issue.
The drug, Humatrope, is not for normal children yearning for a few extra inches, the agency cautioned. It is for the shortest 1.2 percent.
The drug's maker, Eli Lilly & Company, counts about 400,000 such children ages 7 to 15, but predicts that only 10 percent will receive growth hormone because of eligibility restrictions and because six shots a week are required for years.
"This is not cosmetic use," said Dr. David Orloff, the agency's chief of endocrinology.
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