Human Growth Foundation

The Human Growth Foundation is a nonprofit group that works with people with growth deficiencies.[1] It is financed mainly by Genentech and Caremark. In 1994 it published a study that concluded that 20,000 children needed human growth hormone because of their growth deficiencies.[2]

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References

  1. ^ Melody Petersen (2009). Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 0312428251. http://books.google.com/books?id=tyyvqAinhE8C&pg=PT30&dq=%22MAGIC+foundation%22&hl=en&ei=X22NTeXGGeSQ0QG1mYGqCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22MAGIC%20foundation%22&f=false. "In a campaign in the early 1990s the Magic Foundation, as well as another group, the Human Growth Foundation, had measured the height of children in ..." 
  2. ^ "Selling Growth Drug for Children: The Legal and Ethical Questions". New York Times. August 15, 1994. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E17FF3B540C768DDDA10894DC494D81&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2011-03-25. "Fran Price, the executive director of the Human Growth Foundation, a nonprofit group that works with people with growth problems and is financed mainly by the two companies, said a recently published study concluded that 20,000 children were considered medically eligible for the therapy because they have insufficient human growth hormone."