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Lancet Retracts 1998 MMR-Autism Paper
2/3/2010 ... Editors of The Lancet have retracted the 1998 study that first suggested autism might be caused by the MMR vaccine Read More Do You Have Acromegaly? - Research Study 1/6/2010 ... Currently seeking volunteers 18-80 years old to participate in a research study testing an investigational medication for Acromegaly. Read More Sexual Abuse Linked to Somatic Disorders 8/20/2009 ... Aug 20 - Sexual abuse is associated with an increased risk of somatic disorders, in which patients report physical symptoms or complaints with no clear underlying cause, a review of nearly two dozen studies concluded. Read More Sleep, Behavior Improvements After Tonsil Removal Called Durable 7/20/2009 ... July 20 -- Children who had tonsils and adenoids removed to correct abnormal breathing during sleep still showed substantial improvements from baseline after 2.5 years, researchers said. Read More Obesity Surgery Reduces Cancer Risk in Women 6/23/2009 ... June 23 -- Obese women had a 42% reduction in cancer risk following bariatric surgery, data from a Swedish study showed. Read More Later-Life Brain Lesions Found in Migraine-Prone Women 6/23/2009 ... June 23 -- Middle-aged women who suffered migraine headaches accompanied by sensory disturbances or difficulty speaking (aura) had higher incidence of brain lesions later in life, according to a study of Icelandic patients. Read More ENDO: Testosterone May Have Heart Benefits in Male Metabolic Syndrome 6/17/2009 ... 6/17/2009 Older hypogonadal men with metabolic syndrome had substantial improvement in cardiovascular risk factors with testosterone replacement therapy, according to two studies reported here. Read More APSS: Sleep Apnea Not Limited to Obese Patients 6/17/2009 ... June 17 -- Obstructive sleep apnea was the culprit in half of patients with relatively normal weight who complained of daytime sleepiness, researchers said here. Read More ENDO: Pituitary Workup Warranted after Head Trauma 6/17/2009 ... June 17 -- Moderate to severe brain trauma increases the risk of pituitary abnormalities that warrant investigation before they become symptomatic, according to investigators in an ongoing study. Read More Low Vitamin D May Slow Cognition in Older Men 5/22/2009 ... May 21 - Here's yet another reason to worry about vitamin D deficiency: low levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D may be linked to slower information processing in men of middle age and older, researchers say. Read More Pregnancy Makes Thyroid Surgery Riskier 5/18/2009 ... May 18 - Pregnancy increases the risk of poor clinical outcomes and higher costs after surgery, according to a study of 31,000 women who had thyroid or parathyroid procedures. Read More FDA Investigates Heparin Link in Two Delaware Deaths 5/13/2009 ... May 12 - The FDA is investigating a possible link to heparin in the deaths of two Delaware residents who suffered cerebral hemorrhages following heparin treatment. Read More AUA: PSA at Age 60 Predicts Prostate Cancer Mortality by 85 4/27/2009 ... April 27 -- A man's PSA value at age 60 reliably predicted the risk of fatal prostate cancer over the next 25 years, according to data from a Swedish study. Read More Pituitary insufficiency after traumatic brain injury 2/2/2009 ... Neuropsychological complaints after TBI are more frequent than PI. Brain tissue damage is most important than PI in the development of psychological changes after TBI. Read More Pituitary insufficiency after traumatic brain injury - Clinical Study 2/2/2009 ... Wachter D et al. - Neuropsychological complaints were present in 67% of the patients and were associated with intracerebral hemorrhagic lesions and not PI. Read More FDA Reports Nationwide Recall of Mislabeled ReliOn Insulin Syringes 11/5/2008 ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals and patients that Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Covidien) is recalling one lot of ReliOn sterile, single-use, disposable, hypodermic syringes with permanently affixed hypodermic needles Read More FDA Reports Nationwide Recall of Mislabeled ReliOn Insulin Syringes The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals and patients ... Read More NIH to Set Brain Tumor Research Priorities In Current Edition Of Viewpoint From Veritas Medicine Read More Cushing's Disease One of the Hardest to Diagnose Doctors rarely see condition and end up treating secondary disease instead of cause Read More European Journal of Neuro-Endocrinology, Jan 2006 - THE COST OF MEDICAL CARE FOR THE ACROMEGALIC PATIENT by Robert Knutzen, CEO PNA and Shereen Ezzat, M.D. Read More TESTOSTERONE THERAPY FOR ANDROGEN DEFICIENT MEN - New Clinical Guideline from the Endocrine Society by Cathy Kristiansen, Editor Read More TOUCH BRIEFINGS: US ENDOCRINE DISEASE Recent articles published by Touch Briefings: Read More U.S. Food and Drug Administration Enforcement Report Recalls and Field Corrections: Drugs -- Class III Read More King Pharmaceuticals, announcement of discontinuance of the manufacture of FLORINEF Acetate (Fludrocortisone Acetate Tablets, USP) Decision based upon many factors, including understanding of current medical therapy and general availability of generic alternatives. Read More FDA Reports Nationwide Recall of Mislabeled ReliOn Insulin Syringes The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals and patients that Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Covidien) is recalling one lot of ReliOn syringes Read More Important: Keep the FDA Informed! If you are having trouble with ANY of your medications: Read More MicroRNAs and Possible Role in Pituitary Adenoma 10/27/2008 ... Zatelli MC et al. - This review reports the current knowledge of microRNA (miRNA) expression in pituitary adenomas Read More Behavioral neuroendocrinology and treatment of anorexia nervosa 10/23/2008 ... Sodersten P et al. - Outcome in anorexia nervosa remains poor and a new way of looking at this condition is therefore needed Read More Hypothyroidism in Male Patients 10/23/2008 ... A Descriptive, Observational and Cross-Sectional Study in a Series of 260 Men Read More Effect of treatment with depot somatostatin analogue octreotide on (PHP) in (MEN1) patients 5/14/2008 ... Faggiano A et al. - Six months of OCT-LAR therapy controlled hypercalcaemia and hypercalciuria in two-thirds of patients with MEN1-related PHP Read More Thyroid Function After Unilateral Total Lobectomy 10/21/2008 ... Carlucci DD et al. - Postoperative hypothyroidism appeared in 32.8% of the cases in this series Read More Effect of Statins on PSA May Confound Biopsy Decision 10/28/2008 ... DURHAM, N.C. -- Statin therapy lowers prostate-specific antigen levels Read More Antipsychotics for acute and chronic pain in adults 10/30/2008 ... Seidel S et al. - Antipsychotics might be used as an add-on therapy in the treatment of painful conditions. Read More Childbirth and HRT May Boost Need for Joint Replacement 10/31/2008 ... OXFORD, England -- Increasing parity for women who later take postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy appears to have a higher incremental risk of severe hip and knee osteoarthritis Read More Acromegaly secondary to an incidentally discovered tumour 11/3/2008 ... Growth-hormone-releasing hormone secreting bronchial carcinoid tumour associated to a pituitary incidentaloma Read More Vitamin K supplementation in postmenopausal women with osteopenia (ECKO trial): A randomized controlled trial 11/7/2008 ... Cheung AM et al. - Daily 5 mg dose of vitamin K1 supplementation for 2 to 4 y does not protect against age-related decline in BMD Read More Diagnosis of secondary adrenal insufficiency in patients with hypothalamic-pituitary disease 10/29/2008 ... Comparison between serum and salivary cortisol during the high-dose short synacthen test Read More Clinical Use of Cabergoline as Primary and Adjunctive Treatment for Acromegaly 10/29/2008 ... Moyes V et al. - Cabergoline can be an effective and well tolerated primary or adjunctive therapy for acromegaly Read More Male Sex Hormones May Influence the Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Young Men 11/3/2008 ... Kim BJ et al. - Sex hormone status in young men differ from those in older men and may play an important role in the pathophysiology of IBS Read More Neoadjuvant and adjuvant hormone therapy: how and when 10/30/2008 ... Poppel HV - In a review to discuss whether hormone therapy (HT) in either a neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting can offer a survival benefit for pts with prostate cancer (PCa) Read More Lipid lowering in diabetes mellitus 11/7/2008 ... Betteridge DJ et al. – This review article reports that benefits of statin therapy in diabetes are confirmed and extended Read More Cardiovascular Outcomes in Trials of Oral Diabetes Medications 10/28/2008 ... Selvin E et al. - Meta-analysis suggested that, compared with other oral diabetes agents and placebo, metformin was moderately protective and rosiglitazone possibly harmful Read More Management of Graves hyperthyroidism in pregnancy 11/4/2008 ... Focus on both maternal and foetal thyroid function, and caution against surgical thyroidectomy in pregnancy. Read More Erectile dysfunction as a coronary artery disease risk equivalent Lee JH et al. – Erectile dysfunction is significantly associated with abnormal coronary artery calcification Read More Undescended testes: A consensus on management 11/4/2008 ... Ritzen M et al. - The unanimous conclusion of the group was that surgery is generally the preferred mode of treatment, rather than hCG or GnRH. Read More Safety of statins Brown WV et al. – A review summarizes evidence for reported adverse effects during statin use in hypercholesterolemia Read More GnRH analogues: Applications in assisted reproductive techniques 10/10/2008 ... This shift in practice is occurring alongside gathering momentum in favour of milder stimulation protocols and a new perception of what constitutes successful treatment. Read More Hormone replacement therapy post Women's Health Initiative study: where do we stand 11/10/2008 ... Calleja-Agius J et al. - There is a definite decline in the use of hormone replacement therapy among menopausal women. Read More Depression and Bone Metabolism Williams LJ et al. - The possible association between psychiatric illness, in particular depression, and osteoporosis has been the subject of a growing body of research Read More Lithium Treatment and Risk of Dementia Kessing LV et al. - Continued lithium treatment was associated with reduction of the rate of dementia Read More Pituitary-adrenal function in patients with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage 10/13/2008 ... Bendel S et al. - Calculation of serum free cortisol concentration was not helpful in identifying patients with potential hypocortisolism. Read More The appearance of the adrenal glands on CT in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 9/30/2008 ... In patients with MEN1, adrenal limb hyperplasia and adrenal nodules are significantly more common than in the normal population Read More Retesting the childhood-onset GH deficient patient 11/4/2008 ... GH deficiency (GHD) in adults has to be shown by a single provocative test, provided that it is validated. Read More A single test procedure to diagnose gestational diabetes mellitus 10/2/2008 ... Universal screening for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), detects more cases and improves maternal and offspring prognosis. Read More Diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults Provocative Testing with GHRP6 Read More Clinical impact of two different intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays 11/12/2008 ... Intraoperative parathyroid hormone (PTH) monitoring predicts successful surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). Read More FDA Review Finds Minimal Heart Risk with Osteoporosis Drugs 11/13/2008 ... ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA’s promised analysis of atrial fibrillation events associated with bisphosphonate drugs for osteoporosis has found that the risk is minimal. Read More FDA Report Questions Osteoporosis Drug 9/10/2008 ... FDA Report Questions Osteoporosis Drug Read More Review Indicates Number of Endocrinology Disease Studies Increasing Review Indicates Number of Endocrinology Disease Studies Increasing Read More Research Suggests Hormone Therapy May Lead to More Deadly Prostate Cancer Research Suggests Hormone Therapy May Lead to More Deadly Prostate Cancer Read More NIH Family Hormonal Health Symposium - 2004 NIH Family Hormonal Health Symposium - 2004 Read More Abstract: Medical therapy of pituitary adenomas: Effects on tumor shrinkage 9/13/2008 ... The efficacy of dopamine-agonists (DA) in patients with prolactinomas and that of somatostatin analogues (SSA) in those with GH- and TSH-secreting adenomas is well established Read More Practical Pituitary Pathology Practical Pituitary Pathology Read More MDLinx: ENDOCRINOLOGY - LIPIDS 10/08 MDLinx: ENDOCRINOLOGY - LIPIDS 10/08 Read More MDLinx: NEURORADIOLOGY 10/08 10/8/2008 ... MDLinx: NEURORADIOLOGY 10/08 Read More MDLinx: ENDOCRINOLOGY 10/08 10/17/2008 ... MDLinx: ENDOCRINOLOGY 10/08 Read More MDLinx: NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY 10/08 10/27/2008 ... MDLinx: NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY 10/08 Read More Pituitary Growth Hormone Advance Sensus Corporation’s Growth Hormone Antagonists Read More Patient Survey - Possible link in avascular necrosis surgery and unrecongnized Cushing's Disease or Syndrome. 2/5/2009 ... It may be that patients who undergo hip surgery for avascular necrosis may have unrecognized Cushing's Disease or Cushing's Syndrome. Read More Undetected Pituitary Tumors Cause Debilitating Disease 11/1/2008 ... Radiologic images, MRI studies and autopsy reports show that one in five people worldwide has a pituitary tumor. Read More Management of osteoporosis in children 10/24/2008 ... Shaw N - Osteoporosis is being increasingly recognised in pediatric practice as a consequence of several factors. Read More ACR: Biologic Therapy May Be Better for Bones than Bisphosphonate 10/29/2008 ... SAN FRANCISCO -- Women with a low bone mass may get a better treatment response with denosumab Read More Male Enhancement Supplement Recalled for Undeclared Drug A product marketed as an herbal supplement to enhance male sexual performance has been recalled following FDA testing that revealed the presence of undeclared benzamidenafil, a phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitor Read More FDA Yanks More Diet Pills for Undeclared Drugs The FDA has expanded its recall of weight-loss products that contain undeclared, active ingredients including antidepressants and diuretics. Read More FDA Issues Alert on Sharing of Insulin Pens Insulin pens and insulin cartridges should not be shared between patients even if needles are switched out, the FDA has warned. Read More Dizziness Linked to Bone Health Low bone mineral density may increase the risk of benign positional vertigo, researchers found. Read More ACS: New Yogurt Fights Off H. Pylori Infection A new yogurt infused with urease antibodies may prevent gastritis and stomach ulcers by thwarting H. pylori infection, researchers here said. Read More FDA Okays Treatment-Resistant Depression Indication for Combo Pill A new indication for treatment-resistant depression in adults has been added to the olanzapine/fluoxetine combination pill (Symbyax), the drugmaker Eli Lilly announced. Read More Related NewsThe following news feeds are offered as a service to PNA Guests. Please read the terms of use for the sources we offering.
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