The Pituitary World News Podcast

S1E17: Navigating growth hormone replacement

Our last podcast of this series of four on Growth Hormone touches on navigating through the processes of GH replacement, from screening through testing, the selection of the proper doses, and other important factors.

S1E16: The benefits of growth hormone replacement

Our third podcast in this Growth Hormone replacement series of four covers the benefits you might expect from treatment.  Dr. Blevins also explains his views on the risks involved and touches on the risk/benefit issues related to treatment.

S1E15: Symptoms and signs of growth hormone deficiency

In this second podcast on GH deficiency, Dr. Blevins explains the clinical symptoms and signs of this disorder.

S1E14: Diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency

In this first of a series on Growth Hormone deficiency, Dr Lewis Blevins focuses on definition, diagnosis, and setting the stage for future podcasts on GH Deficiency.  The series will cover the clinical characteristics of the disorder, what happens when you treat it, and how you go about getting started on treatment.

 

S1E13: Prolactinomas

Listen to Dr Blevins insights and approaches to prolactinomas

S1E12: Hyperprolactinemia

In this podcast Dr Blevins discusses Prolactin and Prolactin excess.

S1E11: You asked (session 1)

This is the first in a series of Podcast that we’ll call “You Asked”, where we share answers to your questions.

Through our Facebook page feed we asked you to submit questions for Dr. Blevins.  We hope the answers will be helpful and useful for you to learn and share.   We heard from many of you and chose a few of the questions for today’s podcast.   We left some for future podcasts.  Stay tuned!

S1E10: Insights on Diabetes Insipidus

This podcast focuses on fluid, electrolyte disorders and hyponatremia in a case of a patient with Diabetes Insipidus (DI).

S1E9: More on the Diabetes Insipidus Survey

Several months ago we published a survey on Diabetes Insipidus where we asked you to contribute your experiences.  In that survey, among other questions, we asked you what you wanted others to know about Diabetes Insipidus based on your experiences with the disorder and its particular treatments.  In this podcast Dr Blevins shares some of the responses.

S1E8: The doctor-patient relationship

This is our first podcast on what we hope it will be a continuing series of discussions on how doctors and patients interact. Through these discussions we hope to learn from our readers and doctors experiences and pass the insight along to patients, physicians and health care providers alike. In medicine, and particularly in endocrinology, where so many conditions are hard to detect and diagnose, knowledge, awareness and communications at all levels are key.