Claims on “anti-aging” websites promise that human growth hormone will give aging adults better memory, better skin tone, better waistlines, a better sex drive. Not surprisingly, the benefits of the ...

Growth hormone is known to increase lean body mass and bone density in the elderly, but it does something else, too. It activates a gene critical for the body's tissues to heal and regenerate, says ...

While the steroid crisis in professional sports blares from the media, the impact of these doping role models is hitting close to home. There is evidence that kids are using these chemical substances ...

Skytrofa is a long-acting form of somatropin. Somatropin is also called human growth hormone. Skytrofa is also considered a pegylated somatropin product. Pegylated means the medication is attached to ...

Growth hormone, produced by the pituitary gland, plays a critical role in cell regeneration, growth, and maintaining healthy body tissue, including the brain and vital organs. While synthetic human ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given the 'green light' to lonapegsomatropin (TransCon hGH, Ascendis Pharma), a long-acting, once-weekly formulation of human growth hormone, for growth failure ...

Researchers say they have found a growth hormone in the colon that helps damage DNA, which aides in the aging process. The finding could lead to new therapeutic approaches to aging-associated ...

Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report puts a spotlight on the growing use of human growth hormone. One reason: Baseball doesn't test for the substance. But that could change if the union ...

NEW ORLEANS--Increasingly aggressive insurance strategies have lowered the total costs and insurance costs of growth hormone drugs, but those savings are not being passed on to patients, according to ...

The FDA approved long-acting injectable somatrogon (Ngenla) for pediatric human growth hormone deficiency, developers Pfizer and OPKO Health announced this week. Somatrogon is indicated for children ...