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Time to get over our bias against shortness [Newspaper Article]

Caplan, Arthur
Lots of parents are saying "yes." For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents all around America are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known
PROQUEST:259911078
ISSN: 1097-1645
CID: 1488212

PREYING ON HUMAN INSECURITY ABOUT BEING SHORT REEKS OF GREED ON PART OF PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS

Caplan, Arthur
Many parents are saying yes. For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents all around America are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known
PROQUEST:288491705
ISSN: 0746-3502
CID: 1488202

'Curing' shortness [Newspaper Article]

Caplan, Arthur
Suppose you and your spouse were very short. What if you found out that there was a new treatment, a hormone, that could alter your children's chemistry so that they would be taller than you. Would you want your child's height "treated?"
PROQUEST:267447677
ISSN: n/a
CID: 1496852

NOTHING WRONG ABOUT BEING SHORT [Newspaper Article]

Caplan, Arthur
Lots of parents are saying "yes." For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known
PROQUEST:380715520
ISSN: 0745-2691
CID: 1488172

Shorter than average? There are worse maladies [Newspaper Article]

Caplan, Arthur
Lot's of parents are saying "yes." For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known
PROQUEST:432320844
ISSN: 0384-1294
CID: 1488182

A Medical Solution to a Non-Medical Problem [Newspaper Article]

Caplan, Arthur
Lots of parents are saying "yes." For the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents all around America are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known
PROQUEST:406755535
ISSN: 1930-8965
CID: 1488192

Height research shortchanges genuine medical ills [Newspaper Article]

Caplan, Arthur
Lots of parents are saying "yes" -- for the question is no longer hypothetical. Parents all around America are pestering their doctors to use a new synthetic hormone on their kids so that they will not be short. Many pediatricians are giving human growth hormone to kids who lag behind on the normal growth curve, even though the side-effects of long-term administration of the hormone are not known
PROQUEST:271430914
ISSN: 1063-102x
CID: 1488162

PRIMATE TO PRIMATE: A baboon liver transplanted into a human recipient represents a potential medical milestone. The experiment in xenografting also raises some troubling moral issues, says a leading ethicist [Newspaper Article]

Caplan, Arthur
When the baboon liver transplant was being done, I was in Strasbourg, France, at an international conference of experts in xenografting. Some of the surgeons there said that they would accept into their programs patients dying from liver failure as a result of hepatitis. A few of the surgeons and scientists who were there expressed skepticism about whether or not a baboon liver was vulnerable to hepatitis infection, but many thought the odds were probably lower
PROQUEST:267446249
ISSN: n/a
CID: 1496842

Do the right thing: Minnesota's HealthRight Program

Caplan, A L; Ogren, P A
PMID: 1428837
ISSN: 0093-0334
CID: 165260

BABOON-LIVER TRANSPLANT LACKED ADEQUATE RESEARCH

Caplan, Arthur
When the baboon-liver transplant was being done, I was in Strasbourg, France, at an international conference of experts in xenografting. Some of the surgeons there said that they would accept into their programs patients dying from liver failure as a result of hepatitis. A few of the surgeons and scientists who were there expressed skepticism about whether or not a baboon liver was vulnerable to hepatitis infection, but many thought the odds were probably lower
PROQUEST:288529269
ISSN: 0746-3502
CID: 1488152