Custody and Parenting Time (Visitation) Orders. Find out how to ask for a custody and/or parenting time (visitaton) order, respond to a request, or change an existing order. You will also learn about the law in custody and visitation cases and get information on enforcing an existing order. Custody Mediation. Mediation, or child custody recommending counseling in many courts, is mandatory in all custody and parenting time cases before you go in front of a judge to decide.
Gigantism is abnormally large growth due to an excess of growth hormone (GH) during childhood, before the bone growth plates have closed (epiphyseal fusion). It causes excessive growth in height, muscles, and organs, making the child extremely large for age.
The research began with a family who came to the the U.S. National Institutes of Health for treatment for gigantism in the mid-1990s. In that family, the mother and two of her sons all had the condition. Giants are very rare. If you have three cases in the same family, that is very rare, Stratakis said. A second family from Australia with an affected daughter also looked for treatment, and tests showed certain genetic similarities between all of the patients.