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U.S. nonprofit organization

The Human Growth Foundation is a nonprofit group that works with people with growth deficiencies. 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.

The current president of the foundation is Pisit Pitukcheewanont.

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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 978-0-312-42825-9.
  2. "Selling Growth Drug for Children: The Legal and Ethical Questions". New York Times. August 15, 1994. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
  3. "Our Team". hgfound.org. Retrieved 10 October 2024.

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