The Pituitary World News Podcast

Frustrations with the health insurance industry seem to be steadily increasing for patients and physicians alike as politicians use patients as pawns in a sad, ridiculous game without any apparent care to people's health and well being.  This podcast offers a glimpse into physicians and patients growing frustrations with the system.

In this podcast, Dr. Blevins reviews a study conducted at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany on pituitary tumor therapeutics and the treatment for tumors that produce ACTH and cause Cushing's.  Dr. Blevins reviews study findings and discusses the things that can be done against a tumor other than surgery and radiotherapy.  These studies may have an essential role in the management of Cushing's disease in the future.

In this podcast, Dr. Blevins dives into a very interesting paper recently published in the Journal of Pituitary, April 2019.  The paper focuses on a study about oxytocin and hypopituitarism relating to emotional responses and reactions as well as other neuropsychiatric problems

In this podcast, we discuss the latest data on the incidence of Cushing's disease worldwide based on a recent Swedish study on the subject, and the importance of disease awareness in early diagnosis.

Pituitary World News co-founder Dr. Lewis Blevins talks to Dr. Kevin Yuen, a leading neuroendocrinologist and medical director of the Barrow Pituitary Center and Barrow Neuroendocrinology Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.  Dr. Yuen was instrumental in the development of studies of a new molecule used in diagnostics and testing of AGH deficiency. The discussion focuses on new development in GH stimulation test and medical decision making.  This lively talk also touches on new guidelines for the treatment of Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency and the dangers of GH use in aging and sports.

In this highly informational podcats, Dr. Blevins discussed his experiences with patients that receive radiotherapy and develop hypopituitarism at a later date.  On average, two-thirds of patients who undergo this procedure develop one or more partial or complete deficiencies of anterior pituitary hormones.  Learn more about the risks, current diagnosis, and treatment trends.  

From the desk of Lewis S Blevins Jr M.D. co-founder - As telemedicine expands, more and more health centers are providing this service to patients.  In fact, during the week that we recorded this podcast, twenty-five percent of Dr. Blevins's pituitary patient visits were done through telemedicine. That is a remarkable development.  Listen to Dr. Blevins as he shares his experiences with telemedicine, the issues, the potential abuses, the challenges, and recommendations to make telemedicine visits more effective.

In this exclusive podcast, Dr. Blevins talks about his experiences with opiates and the overdose crisis affecting the US today.  He discusses the misuse of, and addiction to prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as Fentanyl.

Today we discuss the findings of the recently conducted patient survey on telemedicine.  The survey shed some light on critical patient perspectives and perceptions, to help us arrive at some initial conclusions, and identify areas for further attention, education, and work.

Pituitary World News strongly believes telemedicine is a critically important service because, among other things, it broadens the reach of highly specialized services, which is essential for people with pituitary disorders  Since our launch we support listening to the voice of the patient and are committed to making sure all the players (patients, physicians, and industry) participate and collaborate to make it better.

 

Listen to Dr. Blevins and Jorge as they discuss the findings.  Our special thanks also to Linda M. Rio, M.A. MFT, for her invaluable input and research on this subject.

Our telemedicine series continues with this podcasts on the results of our recent survey with physicians, primarily endocrinologists.  In it, Dr. Lewis Blevins shares the results and explores physicians attitudes and perspectives.  This is the first of a series of podcasts on the subject.

Our next podcast, to be published later this week, will report on patient attitudes and perspectives on telemedicine form a recent Pituitary World News survey of patients.