The Swedish Pituitary Center at Swedish Neuroscience Institute is a multi-disciplinary center of experts in diagnosing and offering both surgical and non-surgical treatments to all types of pituitary disorders. In addition to a dynamic endocrine
This week’s weekly briefing brings health, wellness and general interest articles of note for people living with pituitary conditions. From Modern Healthcare a fascinating story about researchers in New York using 3-D printers to
In October 2014 Dr. Lewis Blevins, Medical Director of the California Center for Pituitary Disorders and Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Neurological Surgery at the University of California San Francisco, and I founded Pituitary World
This fascinating podcast by Dr Lewis Blevins and Jorge Faccinetti goes from discussing athletes taking too much growth hormone, to patients taking to much Growth Hormone, to normal people, perhaps looking for eternal youth and
We believe proper nutrition and fitness are critical for a healthy life, and that these issues are particularly relevant for people dealing with pituitary disorders. We usually dedicate a fair amount of space to food
From the PWN editor’s desk, today we introduce weekly briefings, a series of noteworthy developments on health, wellness and general interest stories for people living and dealing with pituitary conditions. From Obesity News Today: Researchers targeting
In this exclusive Pituitary World News podcast Dr. Blevins discusses the intricacies of diagnosing pituitary disorders. He talks about how physicians sort through the myriad of symptoms and signs and make clinical decisions about how
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr. MD – Ninety per-cent of ACTH-dependent causes of hypercortisolism are related to pituitary adenoma. The remaining 10% are related to ectopic, or non pituitary, sources of ACTH secretion. One-third of
We’ve been combing the PWN website and Facebook news feed in search of interesting comments from our readers and thought we’d share a few. Our readers are our best contributors and their comments provide very
In this podcast, Dr. Lewis Blevins and Jorge Faccinetti discuss the highlights of the conference held in San Francisco in late October. The program focused on the latest updates and recent advances regarding pituitary tumors
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr. MD – Researchers at Harvard Medical School have reported their results on the evaluation of the use of the Late Night Salivary Cortisol (LNSC) in the evaluation of patients who
From J D Faccinetti, Pituitary World News co-founder – One of the few things that positively drives me absolutely bananas is the increased belly fat that I experienced post surgery, and that later learned is