A 46-year-old woman with a history of Cushing’s disease had a heart attack from an unusual cause — a…
Andrea Lobo
Andrea Lobo is a Science writer at BioNews. She holds a Biology degree and a PhD in Cell Biology/Neurosciences from the University of Coimbra-Portugal, where she studied stroke biology. She was a postdoctoral and senior researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health in Porto, in drug addiction, studying neuronal plasticity induced by amphetamines. As a research scientist for 19 years, Andrea participated in academic projects in multiple research fields, from stroke, gene regulation, cancer, and rare diseases. She authored multiple research papers in peer-reviewed journals. She shifted towards a career in science writing and communication in 2022.
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Articles by Andrea Lobo
A 48-year-old woman in Belgium was found to have a hormone-producing tumor located in the sphenoid sinus, a hollow space…
A Phase 4 clinical trial will assess the prevalence of excessive cortisol, or hypercortisolism, in people with difficult-to-treat type 2…
A 28-year-old pregnant woman was diagnosed with Cushing’s caused by advanced adrenal gland cancer, a rare malignancy with a poor prognosis,…
The risk of consuming supplements was recently highlighted in a case of a woman with Cushing’s syndrome caused by prolonged…
A recent case of a man with Cushing’s disease illustrates a rare psychiatric manifestation of the disease — symptoms…
A 33-year-old man with ectopic Cushing’s syndrome saw his symptoms ease after undergoing surgery to remove a rare, slow-growing cancer…
“Mini pituitary tumors” derived from patients, including those with Cushing’s disease, mimic several features of the individual’s tumor, including…
Pneumocystis pneumonia, a serious infectious complication of Cushing’s syndrome, is associated with a high mortality rate, researchers in France…
A 71-year-old woman with ectopic Cushing’s syndrome saw her clinical symptoms ease after undergoing surgery to remove several nodules from…