And It's About Time There Was Some Support For Cushing's!
January
10
Highlights:
• Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• Add your Helpful Hints for Dealing with Cushing's to the website and the Newsletters
• Fun Games to play online
• Order the CUSH Cookbook
• Testimonials
• Cushing's Syndrome Laboratorial Diagnosis
• Images of Adrenal Glands
• ERK phosphorylation in the adrenal gland in response to chronic ACTH treatment
• Bilateral Inferior Petrosal Sinuses Sampling in the Routine Investigation of Cushing's Syndrome: A Comparison with MRI
• A Novel Nuclear Receptor Cofactor Modulates Glucocorticoid-Responsive Gene Expression
• Corticotroph Tumor Progression after Adrenalectomy in Cushing’s Disease: A Reappraisal of Nelson’s Syndrome
• Early Assessment of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Function in Patients with Congenital Hypothyroidism of Central Origin
• Pituitary: small gland with a big job
• Eight on faculty receive DSPs, Named Chairs
• Adults Who Go to Bed Lonely Get Stress Hormone Boost Next Morning
• Purge Protection
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Stress can affect overall well-being
• Confusion between types of steroids
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Upcoming Meetings: DC Metro area
• Las Vegas, NV
• ENDO 2007
• And much more...
17
Highlights:
• Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• Cushing's Podcasts
• Add your Helpful Hints for Dealing with Cushing's to the website and the Newsletters
• Fun Games to play online
• Order the CUSH Cookbook
• Testimonials
• Judy is starting this off by teaching ART: Drawing / Painting / Photography Class
• Your Health Matters
• (pheochromocytoma) Marshall doctor comes home Kelehan out of hospital
• Valentine's Bears
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Upcoming Meetings: DC Metro area
• Las Vegas, NV
• ENDO 2007
• And much more...
31
Highlights:
Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• Cushing's Podcasts
• Add your Helpful Hints for Dealing with Cushing's to the website and the Newsletters
• Fun Games to play online
• Order the CUSH Cookbook
• Testimonials
• Kate's Top Ten List of Pituitary Surgery Observations (In No Particular Order)
• The other steroid
• Merck Serono Launches Easypod, First Electronic Growth Hormone Injection Device - easypod(R) Was Designed to Improve Ease of Usage, Reliability and Convenience
• Polycystic Ovary What? 2007-Jan-26 - Update on Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
• Still A Mystery. Why is it Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) the most common hormonal problem in women, affecting up to 10% of the female population worldwide still considered by many a rare disorder?
• Dr. Theodore Friedman from Charles R. Drew University, Division of Endocrinology is currently seeking patients to participate in a research study of pituitary dysfunction
• Sam who has been on The Mystery Diagnosis TV Show (Discovery Health) has been invited to appear on Dr. Phil
• Valentine's Bears
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Upcoming Meetings: DC Metro area
• Las Vegas, NV
• ENDO 2007 and much more...
February
21
Highlights:
• Samaritan Pharma Aims At SP-6300 as New Innovative Treatment for Cushing's Syndrome
• Increased insulin-stimulated endothelin-1 release is a distinct vascular phenotype distinguishing Cushing's disease from metabolic syndrome
• Cushing's disease victim needs help for operation
• Cognitive Functions in Children at Risk for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Treated Prenatally with Dexamethasone
• Phoqus gets positive opinion from EU approval body for Chronocort endocrine drug (for treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia)
• (Adrenal) Vaccine research continues physician's legacy
• Cognitive Functions in Children at Risk for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Treated Prenatally with Dexamethasone
• Phoqus gets positive opinion from EU approval body for Chronocort endocrine drug (for treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia)
• (Adrenal) Vaccine research continues physician's legacy
• Pa study: Nose brain surgery OK for kids
• From singer Russell Watson: ‘You have a brain tumour,’ the doctor told me. ‘Quite a big one’
• Empty Sella
• Antipituitary Antibodies against Gonadotropin-Secreting Cells in Adult Male Patients with Apparently Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
• HESX1 Mutations Are an Uncommon Cause of Septooptic Dysplasia and Hypopituitarism
• FOLLOW YOUR NOSE?
• Extra Cortisol Protects Women's Mood Under Stress
• Stress May Cause Excess Abdominal Fat In Otherwise Slender Women, Study Conducted At Yale Shows
• Unwanted hair in women
• Better act fast to minimize appearance of stretch marks
• Dr. Theodore Friedman from Charles R. Drew University, Division of Endocrinology is currently seeking patients to participate in a research study of pituitary dysfunction
• Sam who has been on The Mystery Diagnosis TV Show (Discovery Health) has been invited to appear on Dr. Phil
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Upcoming Meetings: DC Metro area
• ENDO 2007 and much more...
March
14
Highlights:
• Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• Add your Helpful Hints for Dealing with Cushing's to the website and the Newsletters
• Fun Games to play online
• Order the CUSH Cookbook
• Testimonials
• New on the Message Boards
• Guest Questions
• Pituitary: Acromegaly / A 52-Year-Old Female with a Hoarse Voice and Tingling in the Hand
• General Health
• Medical Edge: Stretch marks are treatable
• Metabolism: Hero or villain? Body's 'engine' gets too much weight-management blame, credit
• links to info about PPNAD
• Primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease
• The Lidddle Test
• Sam who has been on The Mystery Diagnosis TV Show (Discovery Health) has been invited to appear on Dr. Phil
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Upcoming Meetings: DC Metro area
• ENDO 2007 and much more.
28
Highlights:
• Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• Add your Helpful Hints for Dealing with Cushing's to the website and the Newsletters
• Differences in cortisol levels and body mass index between East Asians and Caucasians with Cushing's Syndrome: an East Asian phenotype for Cushing Syndrome
• Former El Segundo Councilman John Gaines dies
• Yuma youth soldiering on after rare (pituitary) tumor removal
• Guyana: Linden woman urgently in need of surgery still to raise US$12,000
• The Nation Revealing All Before Anyone Else Can
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Upcoming Meetings: DC Metro area
• ENDO 2007 and much more.
April
4
Highlights:
• Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• More updates on Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• Senate Resolution 127 (2007) for Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• In Memory of Alena Renea Weeks Greenhill who died March 30, 2007
• Polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescence associated with obesity
• Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis response in borderline
• Suicide risk and perinatal circumstances
• Understanding Animal Behavior So We Can Understand Our Own
• Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Announces Filing of IND for Phase I Clinical Trial with Next-Generation Drug Candidate HE3286 in Metabolic Disorders
• Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia - An Update
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Upcoming Meetings: DC Metro area
• ENDO 2007
• Rockford, IL and much more.
11
Highlights:
• Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• More updates on Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• Senate Resolution 127 (2007) for Cushing's Awareness Day, 2007
• Robin writes: Getting "Flakey" in a geeky way, Research, bookmarks, and general info to share
• Equine Cushing's Drug Pergolide to be Withdrawn for Human Use
• FDA Announces Voluntary Withdrawal of Pergolide Products
Agency Working with Product Manufacturers
• NIH Clinical Trials, 10 studies were found for Cushing's
• Disease Underlies Hatfield-McCoy Feud
• 90 Adrenal Studies
• 85 Pituitary Clinical Trials
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Upcoming Meetings: DC Metro area
• ENDO 2007
• Rockford, IL and much more.
18
Highlights:
• RSS feeds on the website
• Robin writes: Getting Flakey in a geeky way, Research, bookmarks, and general info to share
• Abnormal Uterine Bleeding May Be Best Evaluated by Menopausal Status
• Screening Of Cushing's Syndrome In Adult Patients Newly Diagnosed To Have Diabetes Mellitus
• Adrenal Gland Volume and Dexamethasone-Suppressed Cortisol Correlate with Total Daily Salivary Cortisol in African-American Women
• (Acromegaly) Growing feet could mean tumour
• Acromegaly Masquerading as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Aging: Disease or Business Opportunity?
• Kickboxing Causes Damage To Hormone Producing Area In Brain
• ECT in Patients With Intracranial Masses
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Dr Ted Friedman's new book
• Upcoming Meetings: April 20, 2007, Attend a meeting of the NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives
• Interested in a UK meeting?
• June 2-5, 2007, ENDO 2007, Toronto, Canada, Metro Toronto Center.
• Discussions about Minneapolis in June
• October 6, 2007, Rockford, IL and much more.
May
2
Highlights:
• RSS feeds on the website
• Family's despair over rare disease
• Hydrocortisone tablets for adrenal insufficiency
• Improved Quality of Life After Bilateral Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Cushing's Disease: A 10-Year Experience
• The Use of Cortisol as an Early Marker for Acute Myocardial Infarction in an Emergency Department Setting
• Adrenocorticotropic hormone-independent Cushing's syndrome
• Scientists Unravel Clue in Cortisol Production
• Hospital's blunder left me in bed for a year
• Novartis Expands Late-stage Oncology Pipeline With AS1404
• a Novel Agent Shown to Break Down Blood Vessels That Support Tumor Growth
• Verbal Memory Retrieval Deficits Associated With Untreated Hypothyroidism
• Researchers Identify Thousands With Curable High Blood Pressure
• Growing feet could mean tumour
• Abnormal Uterine Bleeding May Be Best Evaluated by Menopausal Status
• Acromegaly Masquerading as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Adrenal Gland Volume and Dexamethasone-Suppressed Cortisol Correlate with Total Daily Salivary Cortisol in African-American Women
• (Pituitary): Aging: Disease or Business Opportunity?
• Kickboxing Causes Damage To Hormone Producing Area In Brain
• ECT in Patients With Intracranial Masses
• (Cushing's) Screening Of Cushing's Syndrome In Adult Patients Newly Diagnosed To Have Diabetes Mellitus
• US Postage Stamps for Cushing's Awareness
• Order Cushing's Awareness Silicone Bands for yourself, a family member or donate to a Cushing's patient at NIH
• New and updated bios and Helpful Doctors
• Dr Ted Friedman's new book
• Upcoming Meetings: Interested in a UK meeting?
• June 2-5, 2007, ENDO 2007, Toronto, Canada, Metro Toronto Center
• Discussions about Minneapolis in June
• October 6, 2007, Rockford, IL and much more.
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