Several Endocrine Society members have been honored by the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) as recipients of 2022 National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Awards. The awards honor academics, healthcare providers, and educators who have contributed to substantial advances in the field of diabetes care and research. “These extraordinary individuals receiving the ADA’s National Scientific and...
A longstanding priority of the Endocrine Society is to advance science-based regulatory policies that minimize harms from endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), and I have been so proud seeing how our members’ work in the European Union (EU) has enabled policy makers to make better decisions using scientific information. For several years now, our EU EDC Task...
President Joe Biden has named retired National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins to be the president’s top science adviser until permanent leadership is nominated and confirmed. Eric Lander who formerly led the Office of Science and Technology Programs (OSTP) and held the cabinet-level position of science adviser resigned after it became public that an...
In another political nailbiter, with less than 24 hours remaining before all federal government funding would expire and cause a government shut-down, the U.S. Senate cleared legislation last month to continue funding the federal government through March 11. The temporary spending bill is the third such short-term funding bill for fiscal year (FY) 2022, which...
Policy supports needs of transgender and nonbinary researchers The Endocrine Society has introduced a policy to make it simpler for authors of articles published in its peer-reviewed journals to update their names following a name change. The policy is designed to support authors who are transgender or nonbinary, as well as those who change their...
President Biden cites need for affordable diabetes care in State of the Union. The Endocrine Society praised President Biden for affirming his commitment to improving insulin affordability during the State of the Union address. We cannot lose sight of this ongoing crisis, which continues to impact millions of Americans living with diabetes. The Administration must...
People who live in walkable neighborhoods with access to parks and other outdoor activities are more active and less likely to have diabetes or obesity, according to a new paper published in the Endocrine Society’s journal, Endocrine Reviews. Nearly half of the adults in the United States have obesity, and over 11% of the U.S. population has diabetes. Researchers and...
Texas governor inaccurately characterizes evidence-based care as “child abuse.“ The Endocrine Society condemns the directive by Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordering the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to investigate any reported instances of Texas children receiving gender-affirming care as “child abuse.” This policy rejects evidence-based transgender medical care and will restrict access to...
A longstanding priority of the Endocrine Society is to advance science-based regulatory policies that minimize harms from endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), and I have been so proud seeing how our members’ work in the European Union (EU) has enabled policy makers to make better decisions using scientific information. For several years now, our EU EDC Task...