From J D Faccinetti – cofounder – Recent news coverage from the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting features comments from Maria Fleseriu, MD, FACE, professor of medicine and neurological surgery at Oregon Health & Science University,
From JD Faccinetti – cofounder – A recent A Monmouth University Polling Institute Survey conducted March 2 – 5 of 810 adults in the US, recently published in Endocrine News, showed that 51% of Americans prefer
From Jorge D. Faccinetti – cofounder – Someone once noted that if you go to the internet to diagnose yourself, you will come away thinking that you have a life expectancy of three or four
From Linda M. Rio and Jorge D. Faccinetti – In December 2016 into early January 2017 Pituitary World News asked viewers to respond to a simple online survey. We have done this in the past
As some of you may know, my first cousin Carol Mackie Passera, who lives in the Patagonia region of Argentina and who developed acromegaly about the same time I did (read more here), runs a
From Jorge D. Faccinetti – co-founder – The Journal Pituitary published an article on the genetic background of acromegaly. The Authors, Mônica R. Gadelha, Leandro Kasuki and Márta Korbonits provide a great summary of current knowledge in the genetics of this disease. Read
From PWN founders Dr. Lewis Blevins and Jorge D. Faccinetti – Like all organizations, from time to time, we undertake planning and look to the future to create new innovative ways to get our message
From the desk of Jorge D Faccinetti – cofounder – Chances are a good chunk of the information published on this site will be of great help to our pituitary over-50 crowd. The website, which
From J D Faccinetti, cofounder – My yearly encounter with JMP medical students was last week. This was my 5th consecutive year presenting an acromegaly patients case study at the UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical School program.
From Jorge D Faccinetti, cofounder – Our recent One-Question survey on emotional and mental health got quite a bit of attention. Thank you to the many PWN readers who wrote and shared very personal, often
From the desk of Lewis S Blevins Jr. MD – cofounder. I’m not sure this term really exists. It does, however, seem to be rather fitting at times. I encounter patients who look acromegalic but
From the desk of Dr. Lewis Blevins – cofounder – This article –Diagnosis of recurrence in Cushing’s disease: American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology Disease State Clinical Review – summarizes recent