But in spite of the elite nature of the cemetery, its most famous resident ... suffered from gigantism, which is when the pituitary gland over-produces growth hormone and causes people to grow ...

Present-day famous “giants” include André René ... visual field loss from pressure on the nerves to the eyes. People with gigantism and acromegaly are two to three times more at risk of ...

It's no tall tale—the first complete ancient skeleton of a person with gigantism has been discovered near Rome, a new study says. At 6 feet, 8 inches (202 centimeters) tall, the man would have ...

Two partial skeletons, one from Poland and another from Egypt, had previously been identified as "probable" cases of gigantism ... at the wider impact of how people functioned in society, and ...

The land of giants. It sounds like something from a fairy tale, but it arguably exists in a region of Northern Ireland where a cluster of people with a genetic predisposition grow abnormally tall.