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Information about growth-related disorders through education, research, and advocacy. Member driven organization.
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helping adults and parents of children with disorders of growth and growth hormone through research, education, support, and advocacy
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Researchers Gain Insights Into Aging in Mice (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Stanford University
researchers have linked two previously thought-to-be-separate pathways
tied to aging, at least in mice, leading to more thought that physically
getting older is an orderly and deliberate genetic occurrence. |
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First Americans Arrived on 2 Separate Paths (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Genetic evidence suggests that two
different waves of people migrated from what is now Siberia at about the
same time to become the first settlers in the Americas, a new report
says. |
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Doctors Urged to Screen Diabetics for Sleep Apnea (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Here's a wake-up call to the
millions of American men and women with type 2 diabetes: Snoring at night
or nodding off during the day may be symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea,
a potentially life-threatening problem affecting one out of three
diabetics. |
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Preparing for a Chlorine Gas Disaster (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- On a January night in 2005, a
freight train with three tanker cars -- each loaded with 90 tons of
chlorine -- slammed into a parked locomotive in the center of
Graniteville, S.C., a town of 7,000 people about 15 miles from Augusta,
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