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Search Results: MCH Organizations

This list of organizations is drawn from the MCH Organizations Database. Contact information is the most recent known to the MCH Digital Library.

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Human Growth Foundation (HGF)

Annotation: The Human Growth Foundation (HGF) disseminates information on short stature and its causes, supports medical research on growth disorders, and sponsors educational and parent support activities. Publications include Achondroplasia, Growth Hormone Deficiency, Intrauterine Growth Retardation, Patterns of Growth, Turner's Syndrome,and many more. HGF hosts a list serv and publishes a quarterly newsletter. Patient advocacy information, training, and assistance is also an evolving area of Foundation activity, given increasingly difficulty in obtaining medical insurance coverage for Idiopathic Short Stature with underlying etiologies. These activities take place principally through the HGF Internet support Lists (HGF-PEDS and HGF-ADULTS). Limited resources may be obtained in Spanish. The organization also sponsors Annual conferences.

Keywords: Achondroplasia, Fetal growth retardation, Growth disorders, Growth hormone, Hypopituitarism, Russell-Silver syndrome, Short stature, Turners syndrome