The Endocrine Society expressed concerns Friday with the presidential administration’s new rules that would scale back the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate. The Society called for future health reform efforts to include continued access to no-cost hormonal contraception in a position statement issued last month. The rules, which took effect Friday, allow companies to...
On October 3, the Endocrine Society announced 22 new recipients for its Early Investigators Awards. The Early Investigators Awards provide monetary support to assist in the development of early career investigators and recognition of their accomplishments in areas of general endocrinology. Recipients will receive a monetary award, one-year complimentary membership to the Society, one-year complimentary...
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Endocrine Society is calling for a bipartisan effort to focus on market stabilization as opposed to the recent proposal to end the Affordable Care Act brought by Republican senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA). Authored...
Endocrine News editor Mark A. Newman spoke to members of the New York Society of Association Executives (NYSAE) in New York City on September 7 about how effectively the magazine has used Twitter over the last few years. Held at the headquarters of the American Heart Association in the historic Chanin Building, Newman was asked...
The Endocrine Society today announced it has selected 14 leaders in the endocrinology field as winners of its prestigious 2018 Laureate Awards. These professionals are responsible for research breakthroughs that lead to the cures of tomorrow and for providing the gold standard of care for patients with hundreds of conditions and diseases including diabetes, thyroid...
The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) on the treatment for gender-dysphoric/gender-incongruent persons to develop the physical characteristics of the affirmed gender. The CPG, entitled “Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline,” was published online and will appear in the November 2017 print issue of the Journal of...
Over the past two weeks, the Endocrine Society has been working the Diabetes Emergency Relief Coalition (DERC), led by the American Diabetes Association and JDRF, to ensure diabetes supplies reach those affected by Hurricane Harvey. So far, the effort has delivered over 3,700 pounds of diabetes supplies to the Houston area; additional supplies are being...
Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, associate provost for Graduation Education, dean of The Graduate School, and vice chair for research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Ill., has been named editor-in-chief of Endocrinology, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Endocrine Society. Endocrinology is the premier basic...