Today’s podcast covers my conversation with Jill Sisco, president of the Acromegaly Community, about the recent meetings with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US governmental entity responsible for approving new medications. Our conversation focuses on the original meeting held in 2021 and a recent listening session where the AC provided additional feedback to the FDA.
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Knowledge and information are critical tools to affect early diagnosis in pituitary disease. Join Dr. Lewis Blevins and Jorge D Faccinetti cofounders, as they navigate the wonders and complexities of pituitary conditions.
Pegvisomant, glucose metabolism, and acromegaly
In this podcasts, we discuss an important recent meta-analysis study from the University of Rome on the relationship between pegvisomant, a drug used for the treatment of acromegaly, and glucose metabolism. Dr. Blevins also dives into
Why do adenomas recur?
An informal chat about today’s health insurance’s trials and tribulations
Frustrations with the health insurance industry seem to be steadily increasing for patients and physicians alike as politicians use patients as pawns in a sad, ridiculous game without any apparent care to people’s health and well being.
A review of drugs for tumors that produce ACTH
In this podcast, Dr. Blevins reviews a study conducted at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany on pituitary tumor therapeutics and the treatment for tumors that produce ACTH and cause Cushing’s. Dr. Blevins reviews
Can oversharing information be the best medicine?
Jay Libove, a privacy and security expert, and pituitary patient discusses privacy and sharing information on social media In today’s new age of digital medicine and near-universal availability of information, we need to be conscious
Oxytocin and hypopituitarism
In this podcast, Dr. Blevins dives into a very interesting paper recently published in the Journal of Pituitary, April 2019. The paper focuses on a study about oxytocin and hypopituitarism relating to emotional responses and
The incidence of Cushing’s
In this podcast, we discuss the latest data on the incidence of Cushing’s disease worldwide based on a recent Swedish study on the subject, and the importance of disease awareness in early diagnosis.
Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency: a talk with Dr. Kevin Yuen
Radiotherapy induced hypopituitarism
Telemedicine: Opinions, issues, and the future
From the desk of Lewis S Blevins Jr M.D. co-founder – As telemedicine expands, more and more health centers are providing this service to patients. In fact, during the week that we recorded this podcast,
Opioids: What should Doctors and Patients do about the crisis?
In this exclusive podcasts, Dr. Blevins talks about his experiences with opiates and the overdose crisis affecting the US today. He discusses the misuse of, and addiction to prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such
Pituitary patients weigh in on telemedicine’s pros and cons
Today we discuss the findings of the recently conducted patient survey on telemedicine. The survey shed some light on critical patient perspectives and perceptions, to help us arrive at some initial conclusions, and identify areas