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Is a boost to height a boost to health? Dwarfism therapies spark controversy

Emerging treatments for achondroplasia pose difficult choices for parents. Proponents say they are changing lives. Others fear they will feed stigma and erase identity.
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    1. Cassandra Willyard is a science journalist in Madison, Wisconsin.

Until an ultrasound scan at 20 weeks, Samantha Anderson’s second pregnancy had been going according to plan. That scan revealed that her baby had some excess fluid in their skull. The physician wasn’t too concerned, but he asked Anderson and her husband Mike, who live in Merced, California, to come in for another ultrasound in the third trimester, just to be safe.

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Nature 620, 936-939 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02647-w

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