There are more than 250 different types of dwarfism. Sarah Manteuffel, 21, was born with achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism that results in disproportionately shorter arms and legs.

“There are actually more than 400 [types of] dwarfism,” explained Dr Sarah Poon, a paediatrician in Hong Kong. Some forms of dwarfism can have more health challenges.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc’s drug to improve growth in children with a type of dwarfism. The approval, meant for children five years of ...

BioMarin expects the therapy’s annual net revenue per patient in the United States to be about $240,000 and expects about 3,000 children with achondroplasia in the country to be eligible for the ...

“There are actually more than 400 [types of] dwarfism,” explained Dr Sarah Poon, a paediatrician practising in Hong Kong. Some forms of dwarfism can have more health challenges.

The likelihood of two parents with dwarfism having an average size child depends on the types of dwarfism they have, but in my case, I had a 75% chance of being a dwarf.

Like Grace, the 27-year-old also has dwarfism. Reid says that she "often forgets" that she has the medical condition, which is characterized by having an adult height of 4 feet 10 inches or less.