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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02, 2025
Excess cortisol and its impact on long-term health
In medicine, too much or too little of something is usually a problem. Excess hormones, excess knees, hospital excess - all of these things can be a genuine pain in the butt. For ages, [...]
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08, 2024
Does PCOS cause heart disease? Dr Jillian Tay explains.
Like many health conditions affecting women and people with ovaries, PCOS had historically been misconstrued as a problem with the lady parts. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome remains under-diagnosed, its mechanisms under-researched and its impact under-estimated. [...]
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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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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 [...]