“As you drove around this area, the only corn that was standing happened to be short-stature hybrid corn,” recalls Sean Blomgren, a farmer and owner of Blomgren Seed based in central ...

People with a rare genetic mutation that causes short stature and may also make them live longer are helping shed light on the causes of ageing. Those with the unusual gene variant have several ...

Very short children are more likely to suffer from behavioural problems, a major study has found. Researchers found that treatment with growth Very short children are more likely to suffer from ...

5 Children with familial short stature should be distinguished from those whose condition does not have an obvious familial component. The presence of bone age delay must also be identified ...

One form of dwarfism, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, involves not only short stature but polydactyly (extra fingers or toes), abnormalities of the nails and teeth, and, in about half of individuals ...