The Pituitary World News Podcast

S5E4: Telemedicine: Opinions, issues, and the future

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.

S5E3: Opioids: What should Doctors and Patients do about the crisis?

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.

S5E2: Pituitary patients weigh in on telemedicine's pros and cons

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.

S5E1: Telemedicine survey results: physician insights and perspectives

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.

S4E11: A conversation with Dr. Sandeep Kunwar

Dr. Sandeep Kunwar is by all counts one of the most, if not the most, successful pituitary surgeon today.  In this fascinating podcast, we talked about pituitary surgery, his views, interests, passions, and the future.  Here are some the subjects we touch on: the latest surgical advances, endoscopic vs. microscopic techniques, pituitary technology, advances in pituitary tissue regeneration, genetics, what makes a great surgeon, and much more.

S4E10: Two cases of disorders of ACTH

In today's podcast, Dr. Blevins focuses on a discussion of disorders of ACTH or Adrenocorticotropic Hormone in two recent cases from his practice.  Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) is a hormone produced in the anterior, or front, pituitary gland in the brain. The function of ACTH is to regulate levels of the steroid hormone cortisol, which is released from the adrenal gland. ACTH is also known as adrenocorticotropic hormone

S4E9: Macrilen: a new growth hormone stimulation test

This podcast by Dr. Lewis Blevins offers a comprehensive review of growth hormone, GH deficiency, diagnostic testing, a statistics discussion on the strength and accuracy of a diagnostic test and an in-depth explanation of Macrilen an exciting new GH stimulation test.  Enjoy!

More articles and podcasts Growth Hormone and Growth Hormone Deficiency here

S4E8: Acromegaly and Cancer: An update

From the desk of Dr. Lewis Blevins, co-founder.  In today's podcast, Dr. Blevins discusses his views and experiences with acromegaly and cancer and reviews the latest study on the subject from Denmark.  You'll find a link to the study here. 

S4E7: Acromegaly that is difficult to determine

Listen to a discussion of Acromegaly cases that, for a variety of clinical and biochemical reasons, are difficult to discern.  Learn about people with definite acromegaly but negative MRI studies.   Why are some microadenomas not seen on MRI or we see cases of clear-cut acromegaly with normal levels of IGF-1? - What is micro-megaly?  It's all here

S4E6: The long-term ramifications of Cushing's

In this informative podcast, Dr. Lewis Blevins explores the long-term issues affecting people with Cushing's disease and syndrome.  For more information on Cushing's download this series of podcasts.