Featured Articles on Hormonal Issues and Health

Mental Health

Stress… Can’t Live with It... Can't Live Without It
For as much bad press the word “stress” gets in our world these days you’d think it is something to be avoided like the plague or swine flu! But you may be surprised to know that stress is not inherently bad and, in fact, can help save your life.
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Ways to Improve Your Mood
5 Steps to better mental health and mood improvement.
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Finding the Right Mental Health Professional for You
This is a very personal decision and can possibly be a long-term relationship. Know you can ask questions, disagree, and ask for clarification
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Hormones and Mental Health: Advancements and Advocacy for Patients
The Brain Tumor Center's Pituitary Patient Support Group with Guest Speaker Linda Rio, M.A., M.F.T. of New Beginning
Counseling Center.
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Pituitary Disorders and the Role of the Family Therapist
Throughout my more than twenty year career as a marriage and family therapist, I have had to continually broaden my understanding of the clinical issues I was originally trained to treat. Like most professions, mine has become more complicated over the years. In recent years it seems that understanding the brain-body connection is one of those issues very few of us therapists were properly trained to deal with originally, but one we can no longer ignore.
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The Emotional Side of Pituitary and Hormonal Disorders
Emotional, physical and relationship symptoms seen in pituitary and hormonal disorders.
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Hormonal Health

Hormone Therapy: Do We Know What It Really Means?
For nearly 30 years I have been a hormonally-challenged patient and I’ve been a patient advocate, educator and leader for 17 years. I am greatly perturbed at the rather simplistic and often dismissive references and attitudes toward hormone replacement both for men and women.
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Pituitary/Hormonal Difficulties: Signs, Symptoms and What to Ask Your Physician
Symptoms: Often individual symptoms get treated in today’s world, not underlying causes. If many of the following are present and are significant to you, talk with your doctor or find a doctor who is qualified to pursue further evaluation.
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Webcast: Pituitary Disorders: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Internet radio interview with Dr. Lewis Blevins, the Medical Director at the California Center for Pituitary Disorders at the University of California, San Francisco.The webcast is part of a site called Patient Power, which is supported by the country’s leading medical centers, including UCSF. Dr. Blevins is on the PNA Board of Directors and serves as Editorial Advisor to the PNA Women’s Pavilion.
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Human Sexuality: The vital part it plays in your health and everyday life.
It is clear to all humans that sex and reproduction have a clear and unmistakable link. Sex for fun and pleasure, however, gets us into another arena with far less certainty. Human Sexuality, on the other hand, is poorly understood, and therefore rarely explained, and most human beings are left to ponder the what, the where and the how of their own sexual lives.
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Women's health

The Women’s Assessment Calendar: An Invaluable Tool for EVERY Woman
The Women’s Assessment Calendar is a tool that can be used for many situations and for every woman of menstruating age. We will provide examples of how this can help women understand their bodies better and communicate with their doctors more effectively as well.
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Anorexia Linked With Unplanned Pregnancies
(HealthDay News) -- Women with anorexia nervosa are much more likely to have unplanned pregnancies and abortions than women without the eating disorder, a study of Norwegian women has found. This may be due to the mistaken belief that women with anorexia can't get pregnant because they have irregular menstrual periods or no periods at all, said study lead author Cynthia M. Bulik, director of the eating disorders program at the University of North Carolina (UNC).
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The Menstrual Cycle - Getting the "Vital" Respect it Deserves
At a recent meeting held at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda Maryland, it was the consensus among leading endocrinologists, obstetricians, gynecologists, epidemiologists, pediatricians, researchers, nurses and mid-wives, that the menstrual cycle is as much a "vital sign" as blood pressure, pulse rate, or temperature as an indicator when assessing a woman's overall health.
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Pituitary Diseases During Pregnancy
Anatomic and functional changes take place in the pituitary gland during pregnancy that have to be taken into consideration to properly evaluate its function, and particularly to diagnose pituitary disorders during pregnancy.
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Thyroid gland: Early adjustment of levothyroxine treatment in pregnancy
The THERAPY trial investigators conclude that, when pregnancy is confirmed in adequately treated women with hypothyroidism, doubling the dose of prepregnancy levothyroxine on 2 days each week safely prevents maternal hypothyroidism in the first trimester of pregnancy in most cases. Is this really the best strategy to adopt?
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Men's Health

Sex Still Important to Older Men
Interest and involvement in sex remain strong among many men as they age -- even into their 90s, an Australian cohort study found.
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Depression

Depression
Author: Tami D Benton, MD, Director of Clinical Services, Program Director, Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
eMedicine, WebMD
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Eating Disorders

SUMMARY: Endocrine Abnormalities in Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric disease associated with notable medical complications and increased mortality. Endocrine abnormalities, including hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, hypercortisolemia, growth hormone resistance and sick euthyroid syndrome, mediate the clinical manifestations of this disease.
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Children and Teens

Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy: Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood
ABSTRACT Consideration of GH re-testing should be performed in all adolescents reaching the transition period (if not at start of puberty) who had been previously diagnosed with idiopathic, isolated GH deficiency. In the presence of multiple hormone deficiencies and/or clear-cut evidence of organic disease, persistence of severe GH deficiency is much more likely.
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ABSTRACT: Aromatase Inhibitors to Augment Height: Continued Caution and Study Required
Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are a class of drugs that prevent conversion of androgens to estrogens, and that are approved in the United States as adjunctive treatment of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Because ultimate fusion of the growth plates is estrogen-dependent in both boys and girls, AI administration may help to slow down epiphysial maturation and allow for greater height potential.
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Other Health Issues

Endocrine Society Guideline Covers Postbariatric Surgery Management
An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline discusses postbariatric surgery management and recommends multidisciplinary care, according to new recommendations reported online November 8 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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