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Knowledge and information are critical tools to affect early diagnosis in pituitary disease. Join Dr. Lewis Blevins and Jorge D Faccinetti cofounders, as they navigate the wonders and complexities of pituitary conditions. Each episode brings conversations with information and experiences from expert professionals and people living with these challenging disorders.
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Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Rachael Clare was diagnosed with a pituitary macroadenoma at age 21. Now at 28, in a frank and revealing chat, she shares her experiences and struggles with diagnosis and living with hypopituitarism. Her blog, The Mass and Me, gives us an honest look at her story to help bring more awareness to the challenges of this disease.
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Our section for physicians and health care professionals launches today with a podcast by Dr. Lewis Blevins that discusses ten fascinating cases of patients with hypercortisolism. We hope this section will serve as a platform to share important information, which we hope will lead to a broader understanding of pituitary disease. We invite you to comment and provide feedback to share the teaching points that this type of involvement can provide to the awareness and treatment of a disease.
Stay tuned for much more from Dr. Blevins and colleagues. We encourage you to contact us to share interesting cases and information.
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
How is the emerging knowledge of hypercortisolism influencing how Cushing's disease and syndrome are understood and affecting the practice and those working on the front lines doing the work and caring for patients? In this podcast, Michael Evans, Director, Commercial Insights, Learning and Development at Corcept Therapeutics, and Lewis Blevins, M.D., Medical Director of the Californian Center for Pituitary Disorders at UCSF and Pituitary World News Co-founder, consider the timeline and evolution of our understanding of the disease as the last ten years, has had a significant impact and brings a new set of challenges to suspect and recognize these conditions earlier.