Margarida Maia, PhD,  science writer—

A high-resolution MRI outperformed other types of MRI at detecting microadenomas — small benign (noncancerous) tumors that form in the brain’s pituitary gland and can cause Cushing’s disease. In a small study from China, about four in five people with Cushing’s received a correct diagnosis of a microadenoma with…

A woman developed Cushing’s syndrome as a result of a pheochromocytoma, a usually benign non-cancerous tumor that forms in the adrenal glands above the kidneys, a case study from Portugal reports. Because it’s so rare, “this diagnosis demands a high level of clinical suspicion and should be equated in the…

A young woman developed Cushing’s disease after she received pain relief treatment for her chronic pancreatitis — a long-lasting inflammation of the pancreas — via a celiac plexus block (CPB) with a corticosteroid called triamcinolone, a U.S. report says. “Although her pain was relieved with CPB, she developed iatrogenic…

A woman who was on Korlym (mifepristone) to treat hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar levels, linked to Cushing’s disease went on to develop liver damage as a side effect of the medicine, according to a U.S. report. This is the third time such a case has been reported.

A woman developed Cushing’s syndrome five years after being diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor of the cervix, according to a report from the U.S. This is a rare type of tumor for which “the options for treatment are few and not necessarily curative,” the report’s authors wrote. “Managing the…

Not many people who are very obese have Cushing’s syndrome, but a low-dose dexamethasone test may help distinguish who has the disease from who doesn’t before weight loss surgery, a Turkish study has reported. The study, “Assessment of the diagnostic performance of the 1 mg dexamethasone suppression test in…

A young man switched his standard diet to a ketogenic, or “keto,” diet that’s low in carbohydrates and high in fats to lose weight, and saw some of his symptoms of Cushing’s disease ease, according to a new report. But he wasn’t diagnosed until his symptoms came back or…

A woman developed Cushing’s syndrome following a medullary thyroid cancer that arose due to a mutation in a gene called RET, but her symptoms eased after starting Retsevmo (selpercatinib), a cancer medication, according to a report from France. The report, “Rapid and long-lasting response to selpercatinib of paraneoplastic Cushing’s…

Treatment with Isturisa (osilodrostat) for 1.5 years or longer kept urine cortisol levels close to normal in patients with Cushing’s disease, and this translated into fewer symptoms with no new side effects, a study has found. The findings come from an extension of LINC-3 (NCT02180217), a Phase…

Roughly half of people worldwide with Cushing’s syndrome see their diagnosis delayed by more than two years despite showing symptoms of the disease, according to a new international survey. Researchers found that this delay perhaps occurs because doctors dismiss some of the hormonal disorder’s initial symptoms — which…