For patient support groups and advocates to share their stories, best practices, collaborate and get involved.
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
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.
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 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 JD Faccinetti – cofounder – Pain, especially chronic pain, is the consummate mind-body disease where sensation and emotion become inextricably intertwined, says the University of California at Davis pain specialist Dr. Scott Fishman. The aches
A frank, enlighting discussion about 20 seconds that turn your life around or can affect the way you live it. Are there any of those moments in your life? In today’s podcast, we learn about
An effort is under way to enable Acromegaly patients and doctors to make congress more aware of the needs of patients suffering from this disease. More details on this effort will be forthcoming soon. One
Today we begin a new series of feature articles that highlight the tireless work that people do to help others. Here are three amazing human beings: Jill Sisco runs the Acromegaly Community website and
We know that the increased awareness of pituitary disease is directly related to the higher probability of early diagnosis. Early diagnosis means quality of life, and in many cases increased life expectancy. Awareness is power
CLIK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE “PATIENT VIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES” COMPILATION FROM PITUITARY WORLD NEWS. From Jorge D Faccinetti – co-founder Pituitary World News – Rare diseases, particularly those that come from the pituitary, are
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