The 3-year findings of the REAL 3 trial show that weekly somapacitan continued to deliver equivalent height gains and safety results to that achieved with standard daily recombinant human growth hormone treatment in children with growth hormone deficiency.
In our latest podcast, Specialist nurse and educator Kate Davies asks clinical psychologist Julie Alderson about the optimal integration of psychology into a differences in sexual development clinical service.
A 4-year-old girl is referred to the local paediatric endocrine unit with signs of pubertal development.
Programme Director Professor Martin Savage is joined by experts to present and discuss the application of precision medicine in endocrine disorders, offering clinical expertise and insight, evidence and opinion on this topic.
Amongst healthy adolescents, there is a near-normal distribution of the timing of puberty, with the mean age of onset in boys being 11.5 years and in girls 11 years, but wide inter-individual variation.
Genetic analysis can confirm or challenge initial clinical diagnoses, helping doctors refine treatment for adolescents with delayed puberty, report researchers.
A 14-year-old boy is referred by his doctor with concerns about his growth.
Measures of obesity are significantly associated with increased androgen production in children, even in the absence of physical signs of puberty, researchers report.
Researchers find that teenagers with endocrine disorders often have gaps in their knowledge of their condition and how to manage it, making them poorly prepared for transition to adult clinic.
Routine use of magnetic resonance imaging for girls with central precocious puberty is the best way to identify occult central nervous system lesions, say Turkish researchers.
