The side effects of growth hormone injections, which are being used to increase the height of children, are on the rise, according to government data Thursday, in line with the increase in the number ...

Parents in Korea are paying up to 10 million won ($6,800) a year for growth hormone injections given nightly for up to three years In South Korea, height is increasingly seen not just as a physical ...

Hormone implants consist of a system of soft, 2in rods - sometimes a single rod - inserted into the upper arm. They contain a white powder which gradually releases progestogen over five years. Like ...

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) announced on the 21st that it will strengthen its crackdown on false advertising and provide accurate drug information to prevent the misuse and abuse of ...

The growth hormone product market, which parents often give to their children, has grown to 400 billion won on the talk of growing children being able to grow taller. However, experts warn that ...

Mr. Cho, 41, a public official, has been administering growth hormone injections to his first son, 10, a fourth-grade elementary school student, since March of this year. Six days a week, Mr. Cho ...

Across social media and encrypted messaging apps, a new frontier of weight loss is unfolding in real time, with people sourcing and injecting an experimental drug that regulators have not yet approved ...