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In response to advocacy efforts of the Endocrine Society and other organizations concerned with the care of patients with diabetes, United Healthcare has decided to provide coverage for low threshold suspend insulin pump systems, the first devices to be classified as artificial pancreas technology, effective May 1, 2015. The Endocrine Society had urged United Healthcare...
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Last December the Endocrine Society and IPEN, a leading global network of 700 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to establish and implement safe chemicals policies and practices, collaborated on the publication of Introduction to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs): A Guide for Public Interest Organizations and Policy Makers. The purpose of the Guide is to raise global awareness...
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The Endocrine Society is working with the Diabetes Congressional Caucus to increase support for various diabetes-related bills. On June 8, the Society participated in a Diabetes Congressional Caucus legislative briefing to provide information to congressional staff on diabetes legislation in the 114th Congress and to increase the number of co-sponsors on diabetes legislation. The Society...
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The Endocrine Society supports the U.S. National Bone Health Alliance (NBHA) response to the May 26 British Medical Journal paper, “Overdiagnosis of bone fragility in the quest to prevent hip fracture,” disputing the paper’s authors’ argument “that evidence for stratifying risk of fracture and subsequent drug therapy to prevent hip fracture is insufficient to warrant...
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President Barack Obama’s nomination of acting administrator Andy Slavitt to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services leaves Senate Republicans weighing how to orchestrate the confirmation process in their favor. The Senate could use a confirmation hearing to rehash the stumbles of the 2010 healthcare overhaul, particularly the launch of the federal...
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The Society’s grassroots advocacy helped defeat an amendment that would have made a new funding stream for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discretionary rather than mandatory and clear the way for passage of the 21st Century Cures Act. After a year and a half of consideration, the U.S. House of Representatives was ready to...
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Dear Mark – I wanted to take a quick two minutes to thank you for the effort you put in to Endocrine News, and to express my feelings about the excellent content you routinely include. I always read it the day I receive it. I must also point out, however, that when I happily saw...
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A record number of practicing endocrinologists have registered to attend the Endocrine Society’s 67th annual Clinical Endocrinology Update (CEU) meeting and related events taking place in Miami September 10 – 12. Nearly 550 people have registered for the meeting, which will take place at Miami’s Intercontinental Hotel. The three-day program provides the latest information on...
