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News and Events => People news => Topic started by: LostInTime on January 04, 2007, 08:23:10 AM

Title: Forever, she's her parents' little girl
Post by: LostInTime on January 04, 2007, 08:23:10 AM
Link (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0701040117jan04,1,7168653.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true)

It is an interesting article and raises some pretty good questions.  The part I found interesting (because it is the first I have heard of it) is this one here:

High-dose estrogen was used occasionally in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly on teenage girls whose parents were concerned about the social stigma of being too tall.

The drugs could stop a 5-foot-9 girl from becoming, say, 6 feet tall. But as that stigma has gone out of fashion, so has the treatment, medical ethicists say.
Title: Re: Forever, she's her parents' little girl
Post by: Suzy on January 04, 2007, 09:47:26 AM
Sounds like an interesting topic.  You apparently have to be a member to read the story though.

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Title: Re: Forever, she's her parents' little girl
Post by: LostInTime on January 04, 2007, 11:15:56 AM
I am not a member and it comes up perfectly.  Hmmm.....


For anyone else having issues with the Tribune, this article (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21013265-2703,00.html) is very similar and is covering the same person.

And a Link to the Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2530561,00.html)