Endocrine Abstracts

Unlike many other academic disciplines nursing is a relative newcomer to higher education in many countries. Although baccalaureate level preparation has been available in various forms since 1920 the real momentum for graduate nursing at point of qualification accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s. The development of nurse graduate education has nevertheless brought the realisation of many long fought professional ambitions but also created an academic nursing workforce. This ca...

Introduction: In adults, treatment of growth hormone deficiency (GHD) with daily recombinant human growth hormone (GH) injections has shown to improve many clinical features associated with GHD. Currently, many adults with GHD receive GH indefinitely, even when they fail to report any obvious benefits from this treatment. Additionally, evidence on the impact of discontinuing long-term GH therapy is limited. We conducted a survey of UK endocrine clinicians (doctors and speciali...