Distinguishing between arginine vasopressin (AVP) deficiency and primary polydipsia is challenging. Hypertonic saline–stimulated copeptin has been used to diagnose AVP deficiency with high accuracy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Clinicians can safely revise their growth hormone stimulation protocols to reduce the ...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) can be difficult to distinguish from Parkinson's disease (PD). Reduced release of growth hormone (GH) by the pituitary gland in response to arginine has been proposed as ...

At the Florida university clinic they administered ten times higher the usual dosage while testing for growth hormone deficiency. The boy is now dead. Three-year-old Sebastian Ferrero of Gainesville, ...