Author: Mark Newman

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Save the Date: Endocrine Society to Hold ENDO Online 2020

ENDOOnline2020_4C_Logo Virtual event to incorporate content from meeting cancelled amid COVID-19 pandemic  Today, the Endocrine Society announced that it will host its largest-ever online meeting in June to ensure endocrine researchers and clinicians continue to have access to the latest scientific information, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.  ENDO Online 2020 will feature a mixture of on-demand and live programming for both clinical and research audiences. The...
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The Guardian Reporter Receives Endocrine Society Award for Excellence in Science and Medical Journalism

The Guardian News environment reporter Emily Holden received the Endocrine Society’s annual Award for Excellence in Science and Medical Journalism, the Society announced today. Holden is being honored for her coverage of our everyday exposure to harmful chemicals found in plastics, cosmetics and food. The winning article, “Is modern life poisoning me? I took the tests to find out,” was published in The Guardian News in May 2019. This article is part of Toxic America,...
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Fertility in Transgender Men: What Do We Know?

In transgender men, what are the consequences of gender-affirming hormonal therapy on fertility? Led by Molly B.  Moravek, MD, MPH, a team of researchers from the Center for Reproductive Medicine, in Ann Arbor, Mich., set out to answer that question as well as summarize the current literature on the topic of transgender men desiring reproduction...
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Endocrine Society Announces 2020 Early Investigators Award Winners

The Endocrine Society has selected five recipients for its 2020 Early Investigators Awards. The Early Investigators Awards were established to assist in the development of early-career investigators and to provide greater recognition of their accomplishments in endocrine-related research. The Endocrine Society’s 2020 Early Investigators Award winners are: Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. His research...
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Insulin Sensitivity Improves with Testosterone Therapy in Men with Type 2 Diabetes and Hypogonadism

About a third of men with type 2 diabetes (T2D) also have hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH). This comorbidity makes that subgroup more insulin resistant, with increased adiposity and less lean mass, according to research published recently in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. A team led by Paresh Dandona, BSc, MB, BS, DPhil, FRCP, of...
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Study Data Helps Refine Testosterone Deficiency Definition and Establish Target Levels for Lifestyle Interventions

As men age, testosterone levels decrease, but current guidelines recommend testing in symptomatic men only, and there has been a lack of consensus about what point that decrease becomes a deficiency. Healthy aging men have been presumed to have higher serum testosterone levels than their counterparts with obesity, smoking history, or associated comorbidities, but large-scale...
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Meet the 2020 Laureates: Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD

Photo_Greet Van den Berghe Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD International Excellence in Endocrinology Award Prof. Dr. Greet Van den Berghe, MD, PhD, is currently head of the Department & Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at the KU Leuven – University of Leuven. This intensive care unit is a large, 67-bed tertiary center treating over 3,100 patients annually including...