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Anti-obesity medications can significantly raise testosterone levels and improve health outcomes for men with obesity or type 2 diabetes, according to a new study being presented Monday at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif. Testosterone not only plays a critical role in the body when it comes to male sexual...
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Women who work night shifts may have an increased risk for irregular periods and hormonal imbalances, according to a study being presented Monday at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif. “Shiftwork-like light exposure disrupts the body’s internal timing, causing a split response where some females have disrupted reproductive cycles and...
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A new set of clinical guidelines published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism is reshaping how physicians diagnose and treat hirsutism, a condition that causes excessive male-pattern hair growth in women. Affecting roughly 10% of women worldwide, hirsutism has long been viewed through a primarily cosmetic lens. But the updated recommendations emphasize a...
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Leading pediatric endocrinologist and recipient of the Endocrine Society’s 2025 Outstanding Leadership in Endocrinology Laureate Award, Ilene Fennoy, MD, talks with Endocrine News about the potential of GLP-1s and long-term solutions for childhood obesity. She says a good place to start is creating more programs in schools to help kids eat better and incorporate more...
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Researchers have provided vital insights into social determinants such as government support, stable housing, and employment opportunities on postpartum health among Louisiana mothers during stressful periods including COVID-19, hurricanes, and the infant formula shortage. The study, “The role of government assistance, housing, and employment on postpartum maternal health across income and race: a mixed methods...
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Elizabeth Pearce, MD, MSc, discusses her ENDO 2024 presentation, which found that exposure to some endocrine-disrupting chemicals that harm the thyroid gland has increased over the past 20 years among U.S. women of childbearing age and pregnant women, especially among those with lower social and economic status. Elizabeth Pearce, MD, MSc, of the Boston University...
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Early life exposure to a class of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) may lead to behavioral problems in rats, according to a new animal study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are chemicals that mimic, block or interfere with hormones in the body’s endocrine system and contribute to endocrine...
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Higher levels of HDL-C—known as the “good cholesterol”—have been shown to correlate with heightened risk for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study recently published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Once women reach the menopause transition, it’s a matter of the quality, rather than quantity, of the total cholesterol carried by HDL particles circulating in a...
