ESA award winner 2024 – Annabelle Warren
Low blood sodium (hyponatraemia) is an easy state to fall into, but a hard one to get out of. At first glance, it sounds like a problem with a simple fix – just add [...]
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04, 2024
No more prolactinoma: A/Prof Sunita De Sousa’s talk to the ESA/SRB ASM
New guidelines for the treatment of prolactinoma have been released for the first time in almost 20 years, instigating a fierce debate about the best way to treat these challenging tumours. Know your prolactinoma [...]
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03, 2024
Why is there a shortage of oestrogen patches in Australia… again?
This article was written by A/Prof Ada Cheung and originally appeared in Pursuit News. Oestrogen skin patches deliver the hormone directly into the bloodstream. Picture: Alamy Since 2020 or so, there have [...]
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03, 2024
A bittersweet AI experiment: Prof. Chris Gilfillan’s presentation to the ESA/SRB ASM
For most of us, AI is the sound we make when we find out a robot has taken our job. For Professor Chris Gilfillan and his team of researchers, Artificial Intelligence suggests a convenient [...]
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02, 2024
Music is the best medicine – for these diabetic mice
Usually, talking to your internal organs doesn’t make them do what you want, even if you ask nicely. Traditionally, musical mice make things more saccharine, not less. Like a record, scientists have spun these [...]
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01, 2024
2023 Endocrine Society of Australia Award Winners
The Bryan Hudson Clinical Endocrinology Award winner Lachlan Angus 2023 endocrinology award winner Lachlan Angus The Bryan Hudson Clinical Endocrinology Award recognises the best presentation given to the Endocrine Society’s Annual [...]
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01, 2024
What’s hot in diabetes? Dr Shane Hamblin’s presentation to the ESA/SRB ASM.
Dr Shane Hamblin, Head of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Western Health, Endocrinologist at The Alfred and PhD student in School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. President Elect of the Endocrine [...]
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11, 2023
An overview of current and future medications for obesity
Obesity is a chronic health condition affecting nearly a third of Australians. As a risk factor for illness and death it’s second only to smoking. Holding excess weight has been linked to 30 diseases [...]
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10, 2023
New diabetes drug Mounjaro approved by the TGA
A new drug to treat Type 2 Diabetes has been approved by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration and is now available in Australian pharmacies. Australia now joins the US, the EU and Canada in offering [...]
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09, 2023
New guidelines for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
For women, nonbinary people, and trans men, PCOS symptoms can be distressing, confusing, and painful – and, unfortunately, so can the healthcare meant to treat it. PCOS is a difficult condition to diagnose and [...]