We caught up with the American Thyroid Association (ATA) president Prof. Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA) ahead of this year’s virtual meeting to highlight their ATA Centennial Celebration at their upcoming conference taking place in Washington, DC in 2023. The 2023 American Thyroid Association Annual Meetings Centennial […]

International NASH Day (NASH Day) takes place on the 8th June 2023. It is a public education campaign launched in June 2018 to raise visibility and urgency around fatty liver disease and its more advanced form, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which affects more than 115 million people around the world. We were delighted to talk with […]

The LEVOLIO study was a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial on levothyroxine and liothyronine combination therapy for hypothryroidism. touchENDOCRINOLOGY were delighted to speak with Dr Giulia Brigante (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy) about the data from the LEVOLIO study, how clinically meaningful the findings are and what future studies are needed. The abstract […]

Acromegaly is a rare, slowly progressive, acquired disorder that affects adults. It occurs when the pituitary gland produces too much growth hormone (GH). touchENDOCRINOLOGY were delighted to speak with Prof. Thierry Brue (Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France) about the current treatment paradigm for acromegaly and the latest therapies that are currently being developed. The abstract ‘Management […]

In the USA, neck ultrasound (US) identifies thyroid nodules (TNs) in 30–50% of adult patients.1,2 Given that the risk of malignancy (ROM) for all combined thyroid nodule types ranges from 5% to 15%,2,3 current guidelines recommend US of the neck initially, to identify suspected TNs.4 Neck US is used to localize TNs, facilitate risk stratification, clarify the necessity […]

There has been an exponential increase in the global prevalence of obesity over the past few decades because of adverse lifestyle choices, such as physical inactivity and overconsumption of macronutrients. The obesity pandemic has contributed to more than 50 different disorders related to excess body weight, which has substantially increased morbidity and mortality worldwide.1 Metabolic syndrome […]

Cushing’s disease (CD), or pituitary-dependent Cushing’s syndrome, is almost always caused by corticotroph tumours, a type of pituitary neuroendocrine tumour, which overproduces adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), ultimately leading to hypercortisolism and its associated clinical consequences, including increased mortality.1 The complications associated with Cushing’s syndrome must be minimized through effective treatment, ideally by rapidly normalizing hypercortisolaemia.1 The most effective […]

Acromegaly is the clinical consequence of chronic excessive exposure of the tissues to growth hormone (GH) and its second messenger, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I). The excess GH secretion is almost exclusively secondary to a GH-secreting pituitary adenoma (somatotropinomas); however, excess GH also results from ectopic GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) secretion, usually from a neuroendocrine tumour, in […]