Endocrine Society’s Clinical Practice Guideline offers diagnosis, treatment recommendations The Endocrine Society today issued a Clinical Practice Guideline that offers best practices for healthcare providers on how to promptly diagnose, treat, and manage patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), an inherited endocrine disorder, throughout their entire lives. The guideline, titled “Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Due to...
Getting the ACT Together: Tumor Database Improves Pediatric Care
The International Pediatric Adrenocortical Tumor Registry is a database for young patients afflicted with these rare tumors. The result has created more personalized and targeted care as well as benefited the patient’s families and their physicians. Last October, the Journal of Clinical Oncology published a paper that described the clinical features and outcomes in children with...Heir on the Side of Caution: How a Von Hippel-Lindau Patient Is Managing Her Health
In the two decades since Stacy Lloyd was diagnosed with Von Hippel-Lindau, much has changed in genetic research, treatment, and counseling methods. Despite a complicated healthcare system, new methods are evolving constantly to treat, diagnose, and maybe even prevent this rare and often debilitating genetic disorder. The morning of June 28, 1996, Stacy Lloyd –...
Positive top-line results this week were announced from the multinational, pivotal Phase 3 SONICS study evaluating levoketoconazole for the treatment of endogenous Cushing’s syndrome. Strongbridge Biopharma is marketing the drug as RECORLEV™ . The open-label, single-arm SONICS study achieved statistical significance of its pre-specified primary endpoint, with 30 percent of patients achieving normalization of mean urinary...
CEU Preview: Controversies Continue to Confound Testosterone Therapy
At CEU, experts will take a case-based approach to exploring the controversies involved in testosterone therapy in the session “Case-based Debate of Whether to Start Testosterone Therapy and How to Monitor.” Despite — or perhaps because of — the huge increase in recent years in men requesting treatment for low testosterone levels, controversies continue to... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved iobenguane I 131 injection for intravenous use for the treatment of adults and adolescents age 12 and older with rare tumors of the adrenal gland (pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma) that cannot be surgically removed (unresectable), have spread beyond the original tumor site, and require systemic anticancer therapy....
Celebrating the New and Improved Bicoastal Clinical Endocrinology Update!
No, your August issue did not come to you early; you’re looking at the very first “special issue” of Endocrine News and this one is devoted to the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Endocrinology Update (CEU) program that typically takes place annually. However, for the first time we are holding the CEU on each side of the...New Diabetes Helpline to Assist People Seeking Solutions to Insulin Affordability
Starting August 1, a new dedicated helpline called the Lilly Diabetes Solution Center will assist people who need help paying for their insulin – such as those with lower incomes, the uninsured, and people in the deductible phase of their high-deductible insurance plans, Eli Lilly and Company announced today. A customized suite of solutions for...
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