Are pituitary tumours genetic?
Apart from your long-lost evil twin, you’re the only person in the world who has your unique combination of genes. Genetic variation is a good thing – without it, we’d be the pugs of [...]
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03, 2025
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10, 2024
How obesity affects your sperm and fertility
It turns out that when it comes to fertility, size does matter – but maybe not in the way we all assumed. Every day it feels like there’s some new advice for would-be dads [...]
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06, 2024
Thyroid cancer is more varied than you think
Other than astrologers looking for an emotionally deep love affair, no one wants to be told that a cancer has been found. This is especially true for endocrine cancers, which occur in organs most [...]
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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
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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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 [...]