Patients 60 and older living with Cushing’s disease have lower body mass index, a measure of body fat, and…
Articles by Janet Stewart, MSc
Low levels of some hormone receptors in patients with subclinical Cushing’s syndrome and in those with a type of adrenal…
Treatment with Signifor (pasireotide) for one year reduces the risk for heart disease and diabetes in patients with Cushing’s disease, by…
Using endoscopic or microscopic techniques to surgically remove the pituitary glands leads to similar remission and recurrence rates in Cushing’s…
Stereotactic radiosurgery – a type of targeted, high-dose radiation therapy – delivered with CyberKnife technology effectively induces remission in Cushing’s disease…
Microwave therapy improved the Cushing’s syndrome of a woman whose lungs had almost failed, allowing her to have the adrenal…
A long-acting, once-a-month treatment of Signifor (pasireotide) normalized cortisol levels in 40% of patients with Cushing’s disease whose…
A test for cortisone in saliva, collected late at night, or early in the morning after suppression with dexamethasone, was…
Researchers report a new technique for collecting blood samples from tiny veins of the adrenal glands, called super-selective adrenal venous…