Endocrine Abstracts

Private Practice is not for everyone, but can complement and enhance one’s professional life - even if one has a fairly limited involvement, hence not particularly large income. I can only speak from my personal experience. When I began I benefited from valuable advice from a senior colleague on how to inform GPs in one’s locality, how to set fees at appropriate levels and when and how much increases can be made. It is vital to have an efficient secretary to ensure l...

Private Practice is not for everyone, but can complement and enhance one’s professional life - even if one has a fairly limited involvement, hence not particularly large income. I can only speak from my personal experience. When I began I benefited from valuable advice from a senior colleague on how to inform GPs in one’s locality, how to set fees at appropriate levels and when and how much increases can be made. It is vital to have an efficient secretary to ensure l...

Colour perception depends on light, photoreception and central processing in the nervous system. Newton, in 1666, showed the coloured spectrum formed from white light passed through a prism underwent no further splitting on passing through a second prism. Newton favoured the corpuscular theory of light, opposing the wave theory of Huygens, which was taken up about 1800 by Thomas Young to explain experiments on diffraction and later formulated the trichromatic theory of human c...

Patients with GHD have an, adverse body composition, insulin resistance, atherogenic lipid profile and impaired quality of life. We undertook a single centre retrospective audit of hypopituitary adults to quantify the long-term effects of dose-titrated GH replacement.The cohort comprised 53 patients defined as severely GHD using the GST (median peak GH 2.4 μ/l). Mean age 42±16.9 years, 23F, BMI 29.3±5.3 kg/m2. GH was titrated un...