Single hospital study finds transgender teenagers rarely choose to discontinue hormone therapy

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A three-year-long retrospective cohort study of a single Atlanta hospital’s patient population found transgender and gender-diverse teenagers rarely chose to discontinue gender-affirming hormone therapy, according to…

Exposure to dioxins can worsen thyroid function

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Exposure to dioxins can negatively impact thyroid function, according to a study presented Thursday at ENDO 2023, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, Ill. Dioxins…

New analysis of trial of semaglutide in adolescents shows it can reduce liver enzymes indicative of liver damage

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new sub-study of the STEP TEENS trial, presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) 2023 in Dublin May 17-20, shows that adolescents using…

Managing menopause: Hormone therapy is back

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hot flashes, night sweats and sleep disturbances are common symptoms of menopause that can affect health, quality of life and work productivity. A new review published…

Steroids linked to long-lasting heart disease risk and worse quality of life

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Anabolic steroids not only can cause serious side effects during use, such as heart failure and depression, but can continue being harmful years after stopping, according…

Overweight boys more likely to be infertile men, study finds

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new paper in the European Journal of Endocrinology, indicates that overweight boys tend to have lower testicular volume, putting them at risk for infertility in…

Mechanism resembling aging and cancer found in a Finnish mitochondrial disease

Morphological aberrations of CIII-deficient hepatocyte nuclei. a H&E-stained liver sections showing typical WT hepatocyte nuclei and the spectrum of aberrant Bcs1lp.S78G hepatocyte nuclei (anisokaryosis, karyomegaly, uneven nuclear envelope, atypical shapes,…