A case-based approach to medical decision making. Edited by Lewis S Blevins Jr., MD “The Art of Neuroendocrinology: A case-based approach to medical decision-making” is not your standard textbook of pituitary endocrinology. This comprehensive
“The Art of Neuroendocrinology: A case-based approach to medical decision-making” is not your standard textbook of pituitary endocrinology. This comprehensive collection of works presents unique and interesting, often challenging, real patient cases that illustrate
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
Today we are starting a campaign to make sure all our readers diagnosed and living with acromegaly know their IGF-I levels. Make sure you ask your physician to tell you and please check your levels
Our periodic scan of the websphere yielded some interesting articles. Some of these areas we’ve covered in previous PWN articles. We’ve included some links just in case you missed those prior posts. Enjoy! From the
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
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
A recent article from the Endocrinology Department of “Escola Universitària d’Infermeria, Hospital Sant Pau, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain” explores health related quality of life (QoL) issues in patients with pituitary disease. The article
From Lewis S. Blevins Jr, MD – Hypothyroidism may be associated with certain cardiac abnormalities. One of the more common manifestations is bradycardia which is a slow heart rate. First-degree atrioventricular block and other electrical
Summary: PWN was created in response to the industry and medical establishment findings of considerable numbers of undiagnosed and miss diagnosed patients with pituitary conditions. The medical community believes that a large number of these
From J D Faccinetti – Berkeley, CA – May 2015. Last week I met another group of great young people about to complete their first year of medical school. This is one of those events
From Lewis S. Blevins, Jr. MD – Somatostatin analogs are a class of drugs that are chemically modified forms of native somatostatin. They are meant to act like somatostatin. Somatostatin is produced in our bodies,