A pituitary tumor is an abnormal growth in your pituitary, which is a small, bean-shaped gland in your head. The majority of these tumors are benign (not cancer) and often called adenomas. Because the ...

A woman in the U.S. has died from severe neurological symptoms that were caused by an abnormal protein — which she was unknowingly injected with nearly 50 years earlier. Having shown no ...

Pituitary tumors are abnormal growths on or near your pituitary gland that can press on nearby structures. Disorders of pituitary hormone over-production means a pituitary tumor is causing high levels ...

In the 1970s, panhypopituitarism was treated by injecting patients with human growth hormones extracted from the healthy pituitary glands of people who had died. At the time, this was common ...

The practice of using cadaver growth hormones — today they're synthesized — was banned in the 1980s because it caused another terrifying brain disorder: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which ...

Fearing stigma, looking for "designer children," parents ask for growth shots. Sept. 15, 2009— -- For more than 30 years, Dr. Paul Desrosiers has treated children with growth disorders-- some ...

Boys with autism and related disorders had higher levels of growth hormones than other boys, which may explain why children with the condition often have larger heads, researchers reported on Friday.