August 2026 Dashboard

Highlights from the world of endocrinology

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Reducing nightly sleep by 1.5 hours led to an average weight gain of one pound every six weeks in adults with elevated cardiometabolic risk.

JAMA Network

The percentage of Americans who have at least one type of endocrine-disrupting chemical in their blood. Source: Pew Charitable Trusts

97%

13%
Starting continuous glucose monitoring in primary care was associated with better glucose control and a 13% reduction in hospitalizations in insulin-dependent diabetes patients.

JAMA Network

“The Endocrine Society has had a major impact on my development as a physician-scientist. In 2020, I received the Summer Research Fellowship, now known as REGMS, and that support was tremendously important early in my research career. It gave me encouragement, visibility, mentorship, and momentum at a time when I was still developing my direction as an investigator.” – Konstantinos Stefanakis MD, PhD (candidate), cardiology fellow, postdoctoral research fellow, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Medical Center, Boston, Mass., one of the four Rising Star Power Talks winners on how the Endocrine Society has impacted his career in “Star Power 2026”

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The number of injections patients could avoid each year with monthly GLP-1 therapy, cutting doses from 52 annually to only 12.

NBC News


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