A new survey reports that over 40% of endocrinologists are suffering from burnout. Endocrine News looks at the causes and offers some potential solutions to help ease this stress and focus on the “joy in work.” The past year was tough for everyone, most especially for those in healthcare. Endocrine News has chronicled endocrinologists around...
Author: Mark Newman
This year marks 100 years of insulin, a discovery that has save millions of lives by transforming diabetes from certain death to a chronic condition. The field has come so far since 1921 with knowledge of importance of glycemic control, advances in insulin delivery models, diabetes technology, and type 1 diabetes prevention research. I can...CEU 2021 Preview: Mitigating the Real Culprits of Health Disparities: Social Determinants of Health
Health disparities remain one of the most daunting obstacles to delivering care to a variety of patient populations. We talk to Rocio I. Pereira, MD, about her CEU 2021 session, “Health Disparities in Diabetes” and about how clinicians can overcome these obstacles to care. This year’s Endocrine Society’s always highly anticipated Clinical Endocrinology Update symposium...Congress Considers Drug Pricing Legislation to Help Pay for Growing List of Legislation
Endocrine Society Continues to Advocate for Insulin Affordability Congressional leaders are continuing to discuss legislative options to address the rising cost of prescription drugs and the Endocrine Society continues to be one of the most vocal advocates urging Congress to address insulin affordability this year. The path forward for passing legislation to lower drug costs...
Unbiased Condition: Why Some Men Appear to Have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
It is believed that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can impact up to 10% of women but according to new genetic research presented in March at ENDO 2021, it can manifest in men as well. Endocrine News talks to the lead researcher, Jia Zhu, MD, about this somewhat surprising revelation as well as how this study...Endocrine Society Discusses ARPA-H with Congress, NIH, and OSTP
When President Joe Biden’s budget for fiscal year 2022 was introduced this summer, many biomedical research advocates took note of a new line item that would direct $6.5 billion over three years to a new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to be housed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). While we were...
Endocrine Society Priorities Included in Appropriations Legislation Advancing in House
Last month the House of Representatives advanced the fiscal year 2022 Labor, Health, and Human Services and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill, which provides funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and several other Society priorities. We were extremely pleased to see a base appropriation for the NIH that was consistent with our request of...
Endocrine News talks with Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, recipient of the 2021 Endocrine Society Gerald D. Aurbach Award for Outstanding Translational Research about what the award means to her and how she came to focus her life’s work on oncofertility, a phrase that she first coined in 2006. Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, is no stranger to...