The Endocrine Society praised the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates for passing a resolution opposing efforts to criminalize medical care for transgender youth. The resolution, which cites the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Practice Guidelines on transgender care, makes it AMA policy to oppose the criminalization and otherwise undue restriction of evidence-based gender-affirming care. The Endocrine...
Each year the Endocrine Society recognizes endocrinologists who are in the early stages of their research careers by giving out the Early Investigator Awards. Endocrine News spoke to the five researchers from around the world to find out more about their award-winning research, the award’s potential impact, as well as how the COVID-19 pandemic has...
Recognizing our diverse global membership as our strength and an asset has been key to building a professional home for all in the endocrinology community. I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight some of the outstanding initiatives created to continue the vital and innovative work of our members to cultivate and support a more...
Since the first, all-virtual ENDO 2021 stemmed from the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Endocrine News presents an overview of the research that specifically addressed how the virus affects patients with common comorbidities. These studies looked at COVID-19’s effects on patients with obesity, hyperglycemia, adrenal insufficiency, and a lack of vitamin D, and provide...
The Endocrine Society appointed two new editors-in-chief of its prestigious journals. Ashley Grossman MD, FRCP, of Barts and the London School of Medicine in London, U.K., has been named the next editor-in-chief of Endocrine Reviews, and Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, PhD, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Ill., has been named editor-in-chief of the...
A new study finds people who consume two servings of fruit per day have 36% lower odds of developing type 2 diabetes than those who consume less than half a serving. The research was published in the The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Diabetes is a disease where people have too much sugar in...
Endocrine Society members Holly Ingraham, MD, Daniel Drucker, MD, and Laurinda A. Jaffe, PhD, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which recognizes achievement in science and provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations. This year, NAS elected 120 members — 59 of whom are...
If you haven’t already, tune into Endocrine Feedback Loop, a journal club podcast series brought to you as a Members-only benefit of the Endocrine Society. Each episode features an expert educator and a topical specialist dissecting recently published journal articles and discussing implications for clinical practice. Using recently published articles from the Society’s clinical journals,...