Endocrinology

When a patient is dying, it can be difficult to know what to say to them. Here are a few tips and approaches that I have gathered from experts that I hope will help you get through those hard conversations while continuing to provide the best possible care to your patient.

The World Health Organization, among many other health agencies, recommends breastfeeding for the first four to six months of a newborn’s life.

Being a good doctor is hard work, especially considering the current state of our health care system. Some doctors, however, are simply bad news. And because most doctors today have comparable education and credentials, bad doctors don’t exactly stick out like sore thumbs.

Public health officials across the globe are seeing a reciprocal relationship of obvious concern: obesity is increasing and physical activity is decreasing.

How do I loathe EHRs? Let me count the ways...

An analysis of population-based medical databases has found that strokes are more likely to prove fatal in diabetic patients who use selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) than in diabetic patients who do not.

Men diagnosed with multiple sclerosis often have higher blood pressure than women, in addition to higher levels of diabetes, epilepsy, depression, and anxiety.

Researchers have concluded that there is a small but significant genetic component to the observed connection between high body mass index (BMI) and psoriasis.

A new trial has found that 8 weeks on a very low-calorie diet can reverse all signs of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in many patients for at least 6 months.

“Physicians should advise patients to limit animal products when possible and consume more plants than meat,†a team of doctors from the Mayo Clinic in Arizona announced in a statement.

Can adding a GLP-1 receptor agonist to lifestyle changes improve obstructive sleep apnea management in your patients?

Do diabetic patients on insulin treatment have worse cardiovascular outcomes following revascularization? Does choice of drug-eluting stent matter?

A new study examines trends in expenditure and price of insulin and other antihyperglycemic medications in the United States from 2002 through 2013.

Diabetic retinapathy is one of the leading causes of blindness

Kids with type 1 diabetes may be at higher risk for vitamin D deficiency.

Study results show that the majority of patients with retinal neovascularization due to proliferative diabetic retinopathy treated with bevacizumab experience total, long-term regression of their symptoms.

Aflibercept exerts anti-angiogenic effects against galectin-1, a galactoside-binding lectin protein and novel angiogenic factor associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

After 12 or 24 monthly injections, ranibizumab, one of three currently available vascular endothelial growth factor antibodies, caused regression of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in at least 75% of patients who had diabetic macular edema and whose DR severity put them at the highest risk of progression to proliferative DR.

Sometimes things we enjoy cause harm, and our career can be one of those things....how do you make sense of that?

Another month has come and gone, and April’s best health stories are right up there with the ones from February and March. Check out the top selections made by the editors at MD Magazine.

To continue our coverage of women’s health from ENDO 2016, we summarize findings on bone mass loss and asthma in polycystic ovary syndrome.

A study of Swedish and Danish twins concluded that the long-observed association between type 2 diabetes mellitus and depression has a significant genetic component.

Findings presented at ENDO 2016 shed some light on developments that could play a role in type 2 diabetes prevention, treatment, and management.

Physicians, hospitals and large provider groups are beginning to understand the high costs of physician burnout.

Layoffs are tough. But, the economic downturn, lower insurance reimbursements, increased business expenses and the expectation that medical practices “do more with less†may make layoffs unavoidable.

Whether it is communicating with friends, loved ones, or their health care providers, being able to communicate effectively can help them feel better about their conditions which can help the overall treatment process.

It may seem obvious, but being able to effectively communicate to patients about their cardiovascular care can have a dramatic impact on treatment in the long run.

Despite recently approved medications showing improvement over previously used diet pills and other treatments there is still no medicinal cure for obesity and the best hope for patients in many cases is lifestyle changes.

The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved some new tools in the fight against obesity. While they provide some help for patients looking to lose weight there are also side effects which doctors and patients patients to consider.

In this ENDO 2016 update, we summarize the new scientific statement on compounded bioidentical hormones and report on a device to treat infertility.