Photographed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine This story appears in the January 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In my hand I’m holding a warm, beating heart. About the size of a ...

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A 16-year-old boy in southeastern China briefly grew taller after an expensive body lengthening treatment. His height, however, returned to normal within two weeks.

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