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Article: NSW: Girl grew facial hair from testosterone injections
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- September 21, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
09-21-2001
NSW: Girl grew facial hair from testosterone injections
By Denise McNamara
SYDNEY, Sept 21 AAP - A schoolgirl who wanted to put on weight grew facial hair and
developed a deep voice after being given testosterone injections and anabolic steroids
by a doctor, a tribunal has found.
Dr Monier Gad from Arncliffe in Sydney's inner-west could be struck off the medical
register after the NSW Medical Tribunal today found he had inappropriately treated the
patient and failed to recognise the symptoms of excessive testosterone in 1998.
During what she believed was a six-week vitamin treatment to gain weight, the girl
- who weighed 52kg - grew hair on her ...