The information provided by the members of the Endocrine Society has proven to be hot topics for the consumer media outlets. Here are just a few examples: Redbook magazine – 7 Super Important Things Doctors Tell Their Friends About Hormones Endocrine Society Council members Bradley Anawalt, MD, and Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD, and Global EDCs...
When the 17th International Congress of Endocrinology/15th Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Endocrinology debuts in Beijing in August, it will have a scientific program created by an international team of endocrine experts. Serving as the international chairman is Endocrine Society past-president, William F. Young, Jr., who shares his enthusiasm for this once-in-a-lifetime conference and...
On April 28, after a day educating members of Congress about the importance of the field of endocrinology and emphasizing the need for federal funding for the National Institutes of Health to support the development of new treatments for endocrine conditions, the Endocrine Society hosted a Congressional Reception on Capitol Hill to celebrate its 100th...
The Endocrine Society hosted the Endocrine Summit in Mumbai, India, to conduct clinical course that covers a breadth of endocrinology topics from April 30 to May 1. This year’s Summit took place over a day and a half and was made possible with support from Sun Pharmaceuticals and a partnership with MediQuest. The Society brought...
The Endocrine Society is launching its first Open Access journal and its first new journal in over 30 years. The Endocrine Society will expand its publication offerings to authors and readers with an Open Access (OA) journal to begin publishing in fall 2016. The new journal, the Journal of the Endocrine Society (JES) — will...
In April, the Society issued a Clinical Practice Guideline calling on physicians to ramp up screening for primary aldosteronism, a common cause of high blood pressure. The guideline, entitled “The Management of Primary Aldosteronism: Case Detection, Diagnosis, and Treatment: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline,” was published online and appeared in the May 2016 print...
On April 22, members of the Partnership for the Accurate Testing of Hormones (PATH) met at the Endocrine Society headquarters in Washington D.C. to develop strategies to standardize hormone tests and raise awareness among physicians of the poor quality and incommutability of the tests they order. PATH seeks to improve patient care and public health...
The Endocrine Society’s Hormone Health Network (HHN) is the organization’s patient outreach arm, and as such it is constantly coming up with new initiatives to educate patients about their own health concerns as well as the endocrine system. HHN Director, Cheretta Clerkley, MBA, CASE, spoke with MD Magazine at ENDO 2016 in Boston about D.A.I.L.Y....