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• 🧪 Dr. Friedman Has Partnered With Ulta Lab Tests to Offer Affordable, Hassle-Free Lab Testing at About One-Tenth the Cost of Going Through Insurance
  Dr. Friedman understands your concerns and has partnered with Ulta Lab Tests to offer affordable, hassle-free lab testing—typically at about one-tenth the cost of going through insurance, with fast turnaround times.
• 📰 Diagnostic Performance of Desmopressin Stimulation Test in Pediatric Cushing’s Disease
  To evaluate the diagnostic performance of the desmopressin (DDAVP) stimulation test in pediatric patients with Cushing’s disease (CD), and to compare its accuracy and safety profile to the ovine corticotropin-releasing hormone (oCRH) stimulation test.
• 📰 Long-Term Obesity Persists Despite Pituitary Adenoma Treatment In Childhood
  Five children had Cushing’s disease (mean age, 14 years; two girls), including one macroadenoma. Those with Cushing’s disease presented with obesity (100%), short stature (60%) and headache (40%). Transsphenoidal resection resulted in biochemical cure; however, two patients experienced relapse 3 and 6 years after surgery, respectively, requiring radiotherapy. One patient also required bilateral adrenalectomy.
• A Letter To Patients With Chronic Disease
  I am talking about your understanding of a fact that everyone else seems to miss, a fact that many doctors hide from: we are normal, fallible people who happen to doctor for a job. We are not special. In fact, many of us are very insecure, wanting to feel the affirmation of people who get […]
• 📰 Metastatic Pituitary Carcinoma Successfully Treated with Radiation, Chemo.
  A man with Cushing’s disease — caused by an adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH)-secreting pituitary adenoma — who later developed metastases in the central nervous system without Cushing’s recurrence, was successfully treated over eight years with radiation and chemotherapy, according to a case report.