The WAPO webinar series presents a series of educational sessions available from the WAPO website. The first in the 2023 series is from Ignas Meškauskas, Health, and Life Coach and founder of a practical wellness practice

News and best practices from members of the World Alliance of Pituitary Organizations – WAPO – and other interesting global developments.
The WAPO webinar series presents a series of educational sessions available from the WAPO website. The first in the 2023 series is from Ignas Meškauskas, Health, and Life Coach and founder of a practical wellness practice
This is a series of urgent clinical guidance documents on the management of endocrine conditions in the time of COVID-19. This clinical guidance document underwent expedited open peer review by Jérôme Bertherat (Paris, France), André
We caught up with Dr. Kevin Yuen, medical director of the Barrow Pituitary Center and the Barrow Neuroendocrinology Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, and Dr. Lewis Blevins Medical Director of the California Center for Pituitary Disorders at
From J D Faccinetti – co-founder – One of the unforeseen consequences of this crisis is how it has affected our editorial decisions, that is, deciding what to write and when to publish. The media
WAPO’s Global Pituitary Voice – April 2020 edition – is now available to download. This newsletter is being released in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the postponement of the WAPO Summit to
In a press release today, San Diego, California based Crinetics Pharmaceuticals reports positive results from their Phase Two trial of PALTUSOTINE (the former CRN00808). This is a new oral medication to treat acromegaly and neuroendocrine
Recordati Rare Diseases, Inc., based in Lebanon, NJ, has recently acquired the rights to SIGNIFOR® LAR and the FDA approval for ISTURISA®(osilodrostat). Both products treat pituitary diseases. SIGNIFOR LAR, a “2nd generation” somatostatin analog given
This article caught my attention since so much of what we do today is based on big data. This coronavirus situation is no different. In the article John P.A. Ioannidis – professor of medicine, of
At the risk of adding to the Coronavirus news frenzy we’re experiencing, I thought this piece from Gil Bashe, a health communication writer, deserved to be noted. His article points to the substandard job the health
A few weeks ago, Dan Jeffreys, a UK based author, musician, and patient advocate sent me a message to tell me about his latest project. He told me he started AcroTales to encourage people to share their
This podcast, the fourth in our drug development series “the journey to a new drug,” brings you my conversation with Dr. Stephen Betz, cofounder at Crinetics Pharmaceutical. Our discussion spotlights new drugs for acromegaly, Cushing’s,
As we reported a few months back, the Canadian International Acromegaly conference offered exciting presentations and discussions. If you have acromegaly, have a family member that suffers from the disease, or you are a healthcare
The third podcast in our series on drug development touches on the effort that industry is making to partner with patients to understand needs, preferences, and attitudes, and to develop insights that would result in