People with elevated levels of insulin also have defects in an enzyme important to the processing of a key fatty acid from the diet, according to research recently published in Cell Metabolism. The study may help explain how excess weight can contribute to diabetes and may provide researchers with a target to help prevent or...
Recapping the January 2023 Endocrine News As we kick off a new year, the January 2023 Endocrine News is paying special tribute to those individuals who have made the field of endocrinology so remarkable, the outstanding members of the Endocrine Society. And what better way to start crowing about our outstanding members than with the...
Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research Joseph Bass, MD, PhD Bass is the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Ill. As a world leader in circadian biology and endocrinology, his creativity and insights as an endocrinologist were instrumental in his discovery that a mutation in...
Technologies such as continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pumps have reduced the threat of hypoglycemia in people with diabetes. The latest Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline on hypoglycemia in diabetes urges greater adoption of these many advances in technology and medications. The many advances in treating diabetes in recent years range from the technology of...
An excess of growth hormone in infancy leads to the rare yet confounding phenomenon of X-linked acrogigantism, which is known to be resistant to conventional pituitary tumor treatments in the pediatric population. However, new data suggests that pegvisomant could not only be a treatment option for these patients, but it could also improve quality-of-life measures....
R. Scott Struthers, PhD, has been awarded the Endocrine Society’s John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his contributions to drug discovery and development programs for endocrine diseases, the Society announced on January 25. The John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship was established to recognize the extraordinary achievement of bringing an idea, product, service, or...
International Excellence in Endocrinology Award Tasnim Ahsan, MRCP, FRCP, FCPS Ahsan is the professor emerita at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and the founding dean of the Medicell Institute of Diabetes Endocrinology & Metabolism in Karachi, Pakistan. She is an internationally renowned clinician and educator who has contributed to the establishment and growth of the...
Racial and gender disparities in healthcare begin early — including among children who could benefit from treatment for short stature. New research seems to show that white children — especially boys — are offered growth hormone stimulation tests at a significantly higher rate than girls or Black and Hispanic children. The racial, ethnic, and gender...
Recapping the January 2023 Endocrine News As we kick off a new year, the January 2023 Endocrine News is paying special tribute to those individuals who have made the field of endocrinology so remarkable, the outstanding members of the Endocrine Society. And what better way to start crowing about our outstanding members than with the...
R. Scott Struthers, PhD, has been awarded the Endocrine Society’s John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his contributions to drug discovery and development programs for endocrine diseases, the Society announced on January 25. The John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship was established to recognize the extraordinary achievement of bringing an idea, product, service, or...
