Case study

Case study on Management of Silver–Russell Syndrome

A 2-year-old boy, “Mason”, is brought to the Paediatric Endocrine clinic with concerns of short stature.

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Webcast available now

Watch the Springer Healthcare IME virtual meeting, entitled Insights into MAnaging Growth for Endocrine Nurses (IMAGE). This is the 8^th IMAGE conference, which focuses on differences in sexual development, and puberty disorders and reproductive problems in adolescents and young adults.

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Podcast

The role of psychology within a DSD service

Listen to the latest podcast presented by Kate Davies and Julie Alderson

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Open Access Article Now Available

Digital technologies to improve the precision of paediatric growth disorder diagnosis and management

View the article published in the Growth Hormone & IGF Research journal that summarises the webinar discussion on the role of digital health in growth disorders.

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News

Weekly somatrogon noninferior to daily somatropin in paediatric GHD

Weekly injections of somatrogon result in similar height gains to daily somatropin treatment in children with growth hormone deficiency, show results of a 12-month phase 3 trial.

Increased peak GH response with oral GH secretagogue receptor agonist in children with GHD

An oral growth hormone secretagogue receptor agonist produces larger GH responses than standard stimulation tests in children with growth hormone deficiency, study findings suggest.

rhGH therapy boosts adult height among children with SHOX haploinsufficiency

A study of Brazilian children with isolated SHOX haploinsufficency who were followed up until adult height has demonstrated a long-term benefit of recombinant human growth hormone therapy with or without puberty modulator treatment.

Switch from daily to weekly rhGH feasible and popular for children with GHD

Children with growth hormone deficiency maintain their growth trajectories if they switch from a daily recombinant human growth hormone to weekly lonapegsomatropin, and the vast majority prefer the less frequent injections, show the results of the fliGHt trial.

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Every year, up to 50 paediatric endocrine nurses convene for 2 days to interact with their professional peers and hear about the latest advances in their therapy area, direct from the expert endocrinologists.

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Conference coverage

medwireNews attends conferences around the world, bringing you breaking research news and expert interviews. Click here to see our endocrinology conference coverage.

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