Thyroid Treatment No “Quick Fix” For Weight Loss In Children

Children treated for hypothyroidism aren’t likely to drop pounds with treatment for the condition says a new study in the Journal of Pediatrics. The study is the first to examine the link between hypothyroidism treatment and weight loss in pediatric patients.
“Parents of overweight children often desire a ‘quick fix’ for the problem and request thyroid [...]

The AACE Warns Impending Medicare Cuts Will Jeopardize Access To Critical Endocrine Care

Unless Congress acts, on January 1, 2008, the Medicare physician payment schedule will be cut by 10% under the current Medicare formula used to determine annual payment updates. Physician payments have been “frozen” for the past two years. This is devastating news to America’s senior citizens. The American Medical Association (AMA) estimates that the payment [...]

Excess Hair Growth In Women Can Signal Serious Medical Problems

Not all unwanted hair growth is simply cosmetic. It can be symptomatic of serious underlying medical conditions which can impact health, well-being and even the reproductive health of many women.
Sharon Ortiz, President of The American Electrology Association, Inc. (AEA), the largest representative organization of professional electrologists in the United States, states “Women should be aware [...]

Insulin Regulates The Secretion Of The Antiaging Hormone Klotho

Dr. Carmela Abraham, a professor of biochemistry and medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), reports this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences new findings on Klotho, an anti-aging gene that is associated with life span extension in rodents and humans. Dr. Abraham’s interest in Klotho stems from her studies [...]

Stress Hormone May Hasten The Progression Of Certain Blood Cancers

Researchers here have shown that in cell cultures, the stress hormone norepinephrine appears to promote the biochemical signals that stimulate certain tumor cells to grow and spread.
The finding, if verified, may suggest a way of slowing the progression and spread of some cancers enough so that conventional chemotherapeutic treatments would have a better chance to [...]

Endocrine Rehabilitation: A New Medical Service

In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, an endocrinologist of the University of Padova (N. Sonino) and a psychologist of the University of Bologna (G. fava) introduce the concept of rehabilitation in endocrinology and the need of a new type of medical service. Long standing endocrine disorders may imply a degree of irreversibility of [...]

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