https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A promising daily tablet is effective at increasing height and improving proportional limb growth in children with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, according to a new study. And the findings could spare these children from needing to have a daily injection to boost growth. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-clinical-trial-daily-tablet-growth.html Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:26:12 EST news651133566 A drug that boosts bone growth in children with the most common form of dwarfism may also reduce their chances of sudden infant death syndrome, sleep apnea, and needing surgery, according to a new study. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-bone-growth-drug-sudden-infant.html Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:25:20 EST news619799113 The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved for the first time a drug to improve growth in children with the most common type of dwarfism. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-drug-growth-children-dwarfism.html Fri, 19 Nov 2021 13:32:22 EST news556551139 In a retrospective study believed to be one of the largest of its kind, researchers say they have successfully charted the health risks, growth patterns, and medical and surgical outcomes of 1,374 people with the most common form of dwarfism, called achondroplasia, seen over a 60-year period at four academic medical centers, including Johns Hopkins Medicine. The findings, according to the researchers, not only affirm some long-standing views and trends in the care of those with the condition, but also offer a standardized baseline, a blueprint investigators hope will serve to speed diagnosis and improve patients' quality of life and health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-years-treatments-health-characteristics-people.html Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:11:29 EDT news543489085 Children with achondroplasia, the most common form of disproportionate short stature, grow taller with trends in improved body proportions after two years of daily vosoritide treatment, a new study analysis finds. Results of the industry-sponsored study will be presented at ENDO 2021, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-03-therapy-children-achondroplasia-persistent-height.html Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:41:22 EDT news535473680 A phase three global clinical trial led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) has shown a new drug boosts bone growth in children born with achondroplasia, the most common type of dwarfism. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-drug-shown-bone-growth-children.html Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:28:34 EDT news518686110 A groundbreaking drug that helps regulate bone development has boosted growth rates in children with achondroplasia—the most common type of dwarfism—in a global trial led by Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Institute. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-drug-boosts-growth-youngsters-common.html Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:11:22 EDT news480067874 Sara was born on a rainy Sunday, the first child to her adoring and overwhelmed parents. Her mother's pregnancy had been uneventful, and all their antenatal tests normal. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-dwarfism-drug.html Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:00:02 EST news368350883