GIRLS who are given hormones to prevent them growing too tall have fertility problems as adults, and many are intensely unhappy about the treatment they received as children, according to the first long-term study of the treatment.
“The difference was overwhelming,” says one of the researchers, Priscilla Pyett of Melbourne University. “The treated women say things like ‘I would prefer to be taller or my natural height,’ or ‘you were made to feel that it was highly necessary because being tall was not appropriate’.”
Between the 1950s and 1990s, thousands of girls worldwide who were predicted to grow to more…
