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Members in the News: Deanna Adkins Featured on NPR for Her Work with Transgender Teens

National Public Radio (NPR) yesterday featured Endocrine Society Deanna Adkins, MD, highlighting her work with transgender teens in the gender clinic she started at Duke University’s Children’s Hospital in Durham, N.C. The radio program lets us listen in as Adkins treats a fifteen-year-old transgender boy named Drew, who came to North Carolina with his mom from Jacksonville, Fla....
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Caladrius Biosciences Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for CLBS03 to Treat Recent Onset Type 1 Diabetes

Caladrius Biosciences, Inc., announced today that its product candidate CLBS03 (autologous expanded polyclonal regulatory T cells, or Tregs) was granted Fast Track designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus (TID), making it the first known therapeutic candidate for treatment of T1D to receive the designation. CLBS03...
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Mind the Gap: Guiding Pediatric Patients into Adult Care

mind the gap As a pediatric patient transitions to adult care, the challenges can be overwhelming, not just for the patients…but also for the clinician. Maneuvering through this often arduous transition takes skill, compassion, and, most importantly, patience. “I felt like I got dropped off a cliff.” These are the words Carol Greenlee, MD, FACE, FACP, of Western...
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New Partnership Hopes to Improve CGM Systems, Health Outcomes

Medtronic plc and Qualcomm Incorporated through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., today announced a global, multi-year collaboration to jointly develop the future generation of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems that aim to improve health outcomes for people with diabetes. By giving insights to doctors and people with type 2 diabetes concerning glucose levels, the...
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Internists Talk About MACRA’s Major Impact

Panel discussion included advice about what physicians could be doing now to prepare for the new system.  The American College of Physicians (ACP) convened a panel today to talk about how the implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the new payment systems in the law will impact physicians and patients. ...
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Making the Grade

patient satisfaction With Medicare reimbursement now tied to consumer ratings, many institutions are focusing on the patient experience — and patient-physician communication in particular. Can you afford an additional 132 seconds to provide better care? Most patients can convey their relevant clinical information in 150 seconds. Yet studies have shown that physicians interrupt their patients after 18...
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Correct Change

correct change Women continue to be undertreated for symptoms of menopause, and a new Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline aims to enlist endocrinologists in leading the way to correct that. Hormone therapy remains the most effective treatment for the vasomotor and other symptoms of menopause, an expert panel from the Endocrine Society and allied organizations concludes in...
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Gender Bias: Are Women Taking Over Endocrinology?

female endo A new study shows that endocrinology will become a female-dominant specialty in a few short years. Rather than reflecting heightened interest among women, it actually shows that men are choosing other options. What does this mean for the future of endocrinology? The top study listed on the cover of the January issue of The Journal...

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