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Artificial intelligence – once only found in a Steven Spielberg movie – is being adapted by the healthcare industry more and more from improving diabetes outcomes to reducing unnecessary thyroid surgeries. As these technologies improve, clinicians will soon have yet another ally to individualize patient care. Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. Those very phrases stir up...
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The Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) has opened nominations for the 2nd Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists. This annual prize and $10,000 honorarium presented by the FNIH recognizes the outstanding contributions of early career clinician-scientists in the United States whose work has the potential to or has led to innovations in patient care. The FNIH will...
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Here is a quick run down of major issues being discussed by policymakers from an endocrine perspective and the Society’s current advocacy work. Let us know if you would like additional information or have any questions. What’s Happening in Washington SOTU & Trump Health Priorities – President Donald Trump gave his annual State of the Union (SOTU)...
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Study finds oral side effects are uncommon and manageable Oral complications are rare in women taking medications for postmenopausal osteoporosis, according to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. An oral complication called osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) is exposed bone in the jaw that is slow to heal (8 weeks...
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A team of researchers has provided baseline characteristics for infants with atypical genital development born in the United States, according to a paper recently published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. The researchers, led by Amy B. Wisniewski, PhD, of Cook’s Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, write that little is known about the...
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Our mentor and colleague, professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, University of Liege, died January 30, 2019, less than two years after he was diagnosed with cancer, leaving a stark void in the world of international endocrinology. Jean-Pierre was a pediatric endocrinologist and pioneer in translational research regarding the role the endocrine system has on the brain of...
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New products are helping to bring the modern lab into the realm of science fiction of yesteryear as automation slowly but surely makes its way to the bench. When Hanna-Barbera produced The Jetsons for ABC in 1962, little did they know how much of their cartoon would become reality 57 years later. Robots would be...
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Stephen M. Rosenthal, MD; Micol S. Rothman, MD; and Joshua D. Safer, MD, FACP, talk to Endocrine News about their ENDO 2019 Meet-The-Professor session on treating transgender patients and how they hope to further educate endocrinologists who are more likely than ever before to encounter these types of cases. ENDO 2019 is next month, and...
