Thyroid dysfunction is fairly common among pregnant women and can often result in additional obstetric complications. A new study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism shows that thyroid screening — despite some controversy as to its usefulness — could help identify women who might benefit from additional prenatal care. Pregnancy places quite a...
Aging Gracefully: Targeting Cellular Senescence in Age-Related Osteoporosis and Frailty
Sundeep Khosla, MD, talks to Endocrine News about his ENDO 2019 plenary talk on treating osteoporosis via cellular senescence with the ultimate goal of making the golden years truly golden with a better quality of life. ENDO 2019 is now about 10 weeks away, and while we’re excited about all the sights, sounds, and smells...
Over the past few years, Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP, from the New York University School of Medicine, has not been a stranger to the readers of Endocrine News. Whether he was leading a research team whose work was published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and featured in a 2016 Trends article to... A longer duration of infertility was associated with lower sperm count and other parameters of impaired sperm, according to a study recently published in BJU International. The study also shows that older age and higher body mass index were associated with a longer duration of infertility. Researchers led by Andrea Salonia of the Division of...
Hysterectomy can impair some types of memory in the short term following the surgery, according to a rat study published in Endocrinology. Researchers led by Heather Bimonte-Nelson, PhD, Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. Point out that one in three women in the U.S. undergo a hysterectomy by age 60, but few studies have looked at...
Mindfulness course participants lost more weight than others in obesity management program Mindfulness training may improve the effectiveness of intensive weight management programs, according to a small study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Individuals who participated in mindfulness training as part of an intensive weight management program lost more weight in...
Most Frequent Pathogenic Mutation in RET Carries Very Low Lifetime Risk of Medullary Thyroid Cancer
The most frequent pathogenic mutation in the rearranged during transfection (RET) mutation — p.Val804Met – carries with it a very low lifetime risk of medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), which could mean the American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) recommendation of prophylactic thyroidectomy as standard for all RET mutation carriers is inappropriate, according to a study recently published...
With a brutal five-year survival rate below 40%, adrenocortical carcinoma is not only rare, it is also somewhat misunderstood. New research may shed light on this condition and even provide a path to future treatment options. Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is an aggressive orphan malignancy that confers a less than 35% survival rate at five years....
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