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Leveling Up: Pediatric Growth Hormone Deficiency Treatment Advances Show Promise

As the desire for a less frequently administered growth hormone treatment intensifies, clinicians are looking to researchers for the latest data on safety and efficacy. Luckily, as more studies are undertaken patients and clinicians may soon have a wealth of options. Since 1985, children with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) have been prescribed somatropin – recombinant...
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Meet the 2023 Endocrine Society Laureates: Beverly M.K. Biller, MD, Recipient of the Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Service Award

Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Service Award Beverly M.K. Biller, MD A professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass., Biller has been a dedicated and tireless leader of the Endocrine Society for more than a quarter century, deeply impacting the Society and the field of endocrinology....
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Advance Your Career by Volunteering

UrsulaKaiserHeadshotENDO2022 As we each consider how to make the most of 2023, I hope you will take a few moments to ponder your role in the Endocrine Society and ways to maximize your membership. Getting involved in our activities can be very rewarding, both personally and professionally. In the past two decades, I have been fortunate...
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Meet the 2023 Endocrine Society Laureates: Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD

Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD  Lazar is the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and the founding director of the university’s Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism. He is an endocrinologist and...
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The “Congenital” Scientist

EN_01_2023_US_FINALCOVER Honored by both the Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology with the 2023 Transatlantic Alliance Award, George Chrousos, MD, ScD, has made significant contributions to endocrine research on both sides of the Atlantic! Endocrine News speaks with Chrousos about what this award means to him, conducting pioneering research on two different continents, the...
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Solving the Hypothyroidism Puzzle: Q&A: Antonio Bianco, MD, PhD

bianco headshot Two months after his new book, Rethinking Hypothyroidism, hit the shelves, Antonio Bianco, MD, PhD, talks to Endocrine News about, well, rethinking hypothyroidism. From his research of thyroid metabolism and deiodinases to why researchers and clinicians have often been so mystified by hypothyroidism for centuries, Bianco discusses why treating hypothyroidism is a “solution followed by...
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Pro Golfer Azahara Muñoz Shares Her Experience with Hashimoto’s Disease

Aza Photo 2 When professional golfer Azahara Muñoz started developing symptoms of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis – tiredness, cold extremities – she chalked them up to practicing too hard or traveling too much. It’s a stressful job. “You almost always have an excuse for it,” she says. But then around 2016, Muñoz noticed she began suffering from anxiety. Her hair...