Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a multifactorial, multifaceted syndrome that affects women across all ages from adolescence to post-menopause. It is reported to be the most common endocrinopathy in women of the reproductive age group.1 The nature of this syndrome ...
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is an innate error in the biosynthesis of adrenal steroids, which triggers a wide range of consequences based on the level of the enzyme blockade. A deficiency in the enzyme 21-α-hydroxylase is the most frequent cause, ...
I work in a semi-rural practice in South-West Scotland, in one of three practices based in a purpose-built medical centre. As with most NHS general practices we are furnished with relatively outdated computer hardware and old software. Our practice, however, ...
Diabetes distress Diabetes distress (DD) is a well-described challenge of living with diabetes. While earlier authors defined DD as a set of unique, often hidden emotional burdens and worries that are part of the spectrum of patient experience when managing ...
‘We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts… Be the witness of your thoughts.’ – Gautama Buddha1 The biomedical approach in modern medicine focuses on disease as a deviation from the norm of measurable biological variables. ...
Alexithymia Alexithymia is a personality trait that refers to the inability to express emotions in words. The term was coined by psychotherapist Peter Sifneos in 1973, who used it to imply “no words for mood.”1 Over the past half-century or so, ...
It is vital for all of us involved in endocrinology and diabetes to keep abreast of advances in the various fields which will help those for whom we are responsible, our patients. As an endocrinologist with a particular interest in ...
The recent Advanced Therapeutics and Technologies in Diabetes (ATTD) conference held in Milan, Italy was a timely reminder of how the mechanics and engineering precision involved in diabetes technologies can sometimes seem to be on the polar opposite end of ...
‘Quality of life’, we believe, is becoming a more esoteric and often confusing term than first intended when it was originated. At one time just being alive constituted a primitive form of ‘quality of life’. ‘Quality of life’, we believe, ...
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