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World Alliance of Pituitary Organizations: April 2018 Newsletter
The World Alliance of Pituitary Organizations (WAPO) recently published their first newsletter for 2018 with a bunch of interesting pituitary organization’s articles from around the world. Andrei Andrusov, WAPO Chairman of the Board reviews a process
More on Opioids and Pain
In a recent podcast on acromegaly and arthritis, we discussed the opioid use crisis currently gripping the United States. The podcast focused primarily on arthropathy, articular, and joint problems associated with acromegaly. These are painful conditions that
PWN technology corner: A look at Telehealth
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines telehealth as the “use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care,
Future Doctors – 2018
From J D Faccinetti – Cofounder. This is a group of first-year medical students from the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP). I had the pleasure, as I’ve done every year since 2012, to meet
WAPO and PWN partner for pituitary disease awareness and action around the globe
From J D Faccinetti and Lewis S. Blevins, Jr., M.D. Founders – Pituitary World News is pleased to announce is joining the many WAPO members making a difference around the world in the effort to
More form the Canadian National Acromegaly Conference
Patient advocates and PWN panel Q & A session: Santino Santino Matrundola, Dan Jeffries and JD Faccinetti answer questions from the floor about living with acromegaly, advocacy, memoir writing and more. The Canadian National Acromegaly patient
What do you do if faced with this scenario?
From the desk of J D Faccinetti, co-founder PWN – You’re sitting at an airport. Suddenly someone sits next to you. You look. Then look again. The features. The hands. “Yes, I think this person
The Acromegaly Patient community gathers in Vancouver, BC for its first support group conference.
From J D Faccinetti – cofounder. In what is sure to be the first of many, Canada’s acromegaly community gathered in Vancouver for a two-day session filled with community, activity, and information. Patients, pituitary specialists,
Net Neutrality: You can help!
Why is it important to nonprofits like PWN? Like other nonprofits, Pituitary World News (PWN) relies on grants and individual donations to sustain the educational content brochures, articles, POV’s, opinion editorials, and podcast we continually
Interview Study. Interested in providing feedback? Read more…
A leading research company will be conducting interviews for a usability study with patients diagnosed with acromegaly, carcinoid, and intestinal peptide tumors. The study is interested in your opinion on a future treatment delivery device.
Readers weigh-in on an Affordable Care Act Poll
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
So we say, yes. Go for it! Write, debate, react, get out there, get involved!
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