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Endocrine Society members representing the Society’s leadership, Advocacy & Public Outreach Core Committee, Clinical Affairs Core Committee, Research Affairs Core Committee, Centennial Task Force, and Future Leaders to Advance Research in Endocrinology (FLARE) headed to Capitol Hill April 28 to educate Members of Congress about the importance of the endocrinology field. The Society held the...
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Endocrine News spoke with David Weinberg, PhD, project lead for the Human Placenta Project about why this new initiative is so important and how Endocrine Society members can become involved. The Human Placenta Project (HPP) was launched in the spring of 2014 by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development....
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The federal appropriations season – when members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate develop and vote on spending bills to fund all federal programs – is upon Washington, D.C. House and Senate Appropriations Committees have begun to consider spending bills for fiscal year (FY) 2017. In the Senate, there is a fever pitch...
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The Endocrine Society continues its advocacy and educational efforts concerning the impact seen in patients’ lives linked to exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). On February 29, Endocrine Society members Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, MD; Rémy Slama, PhD; and Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP, met with policymakers in the European Union to provide scientific expertise, comments, and concerns regarding...
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Hypoglycemia continues to be a critical barrier for patients with diabetes to reach their goals. Hypoglycemic unawareness or fear of low blood sugar may lead these individuals to take less insulin than prescribed or for physicians to utilize oral medications that do not contribute to these events. In an effort to understand these issues, the...
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On January 27, Endocrine Society attended the 200th meeting of the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Advisory Council. Society members Lee Kaplan, MD, PhD; Alan Saltiel, PhD; Jerry Palmer, MD; and Joel Elmquist, PhD, DVM, are members of the Council. Endocrine Society member Steven Kahn, MB, CHE, served as an ad hoc...
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The Obama administration unveiled its annual budget proposal on February 9. The budget proposal would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) $33.1 billion, a 2.6% raise over 2016. The money would include $680 million for Vice President Biden’s cancer moonshot; $100 million more for the Precision Medicine Initiative’s 1-million-person cohort study; and $45 million...
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On December 16, 2015 NIH released its NIH-Wide Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2016-2020: Turning Discovery Into Health. The Endocrine Society provided input to the NIH during the strategic planning process and sent a letter to the Director of NIH, Francis Collins, MD, and NIH Principal Deputy Director, Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD. In our comments, the...
