Girls may be less likely than boys to have their short height checked out for possible medical causes, at least among poor kids, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 33,000 ...

Young girls with eating disorders whose growth is stunted by inadequate nutrition may achieve catch-up growth in height if they regain weight soon enough — but it takes several years, a new study ...

If you're the parent of the shortest—or the tallest—kid in the class, you probably understand the fixation about childhood height. Indeed, the emphasis is first placed on size moments after your child ...

A study of more than 117,000 Danish women provides the most convincing evidence yet of a link between a girl’s growth rate and her risk of developing breast cancer later in life. The report, published ...

Giving girls with Turner syndrome low doses of estrogen, as well as growth hormone, years before the onset of puberty, increases their height and offers a wealth of other benefits, say a team of ...

Latest research shows that giving adolescent girls estrogen treatments to keep them from getting too tall could leads to fertility problems later on in life . Estrogen is thought to limit height by ...