The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Ascendis Pharma’s Skytrofa (lonapegsomatropin-tcgd, ...

Human growth hormone can help hormone-deficient children grow taller. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration began allowing manufacturers to market the drug for use in short children with ...

Treatment for the deficiency is injections of human growth hormone, typically given daily. Pfizer already markets one such product, Genotropin, a drug that generated $427 million in revenue in 2020.

The once-weekly injection, already approved in pediatric patients with GHD, offers convenience over daily injections.

Human growth hormone has been in the news recently because of the Mitchell Report on doping in Major League Baseball. HGH is one of the illegal substances used by baseball players, but it ...

Feb. 12, 2008 -- Marie Miano, like some professional athletes, takes human growth hormone — but she has a prescription. "I feel like a fountain of youth because I feel better than I did before.

For more information, patients treated with cadaver-derived human growth hormone in the U.S. can call the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at 1-800-860-8747 or ...

Single-use, pre-filled pens of the human growth hormone analog will come in strengths of 24 mg/1.2 mL (20 mg/mL; delivering the dose in 0.2 mg increments) and 60 mg/1.2 mL (50 mg/mL; delivering ...

But for families whose children need human growth hormone, one shortage feels like it will never end. NPR pharmaceuticals correspondent Sydney Lupkin reports on the shortage of a drug called ...

Lonapegsomatropin is a pegylated prodrug of the human growth hormone, somatropin, administered as a subcutaneous injection once-weekly.