Patient Story: Shifting Bite Leads to Diagnosis of Acromegaly A story in the New York Times tells the story of a woman who kept having problems with her bite. The dentist filed her teeth but sent her for and MRI when the jaw shifted again. That’s when a technician saw...
PNA Highlights June 2022 The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. Jimmy Carter PNA Spotlight: Dr. Adam Mamelak This month the PNA Spotlight focuses on...
The Women’s Assessment Calendar is a tool that can be used for many situations and for every woman of menstruating age. We will provide examples of how this can help women understand their bodies better and communicate with their doctors more effectively as...
This section reprinted with permission from Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Exploring the factors that affect growth Each child’s potential for height is based on genes inherited from both parents. Parents tend to have children that are about their own height....
GH has been used to treat GH-deficient children for more than 35 years. Human GH originally was obtained from cadaver pituitaries and was available in only limited quantities. In 1985, however, data indicated that pituitary-derived GH was the likely source of...
