Growth Disorders in Infants, Children, and Adolescents (A Wiley medical publication)

A simplified yet exhaustive text and reference bringing together in one source a review of normal growth and its variations and growth disorders from fetal life through adolescence. The book investigates nutritional and psychological effects upon growth and includes important advances made in the field, including screening of newborns for hypothyroidism, discovery of somatomedins, and the ability to synthesize human growth hormone.