chuv.ch Background and objectives: Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) has been on the list of forbidden substances since ... which measures the difference between the circulating and the ...

In April, 1985, the FDA banned the distribution of pituitary growth hormone (hGH) because of the possibility that it was contaminated by a “slow virus”. All parents of children receiving hGH ...

Growth-hormone (GH) secretion is reduced in obesity, but studies of GH therapy in obese individuals have produced conflicting results. A meta-analysis of studies on the effects of recombinant ...