This fascinating podcast by Dr Lewis Blevins and Jorge Faccinetti goes from discussing athletes taking too much growth hormone, to patients taking to much Growth Hormone, to normal people, perhaps looking for eternal youth and doing a lot of damage to themselves in the process.  Dr. Blevins discusses the science and the art of getting patients to a normal range.

In this exclusive Pituitary World News podcast Dr. Blevins discusses the intricacies of diagnosing pituitary disorders.  He talks about how physicians sort through the myriad of symptoms and signs and make clinical decisions about how to proceed.  What goes through physicians mind and what factors they consider as they hear and observe what patients are saying.

In this podcast, Dr. Lewis Blevins and Jorge Faccinetti discuss the highlights of the conference held in San Francisco in late October.  The program focused on the latest updates and recent advances regarding pituitary tumors and related disorders. The podcast offers a unique Doctor/patient perspective on the subject and an interesting discussion.

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This is the second podcasts from our series "You asked" where we answer a few questions posted in Pituitary World News over the last few weeks.  In today's first answer, Dr Blevins focuses on a question about pituitary pathology and labeling indexes shown in pituitary pathology reports.  The second answer deals with the long term effects of steroid treatment on the adrenal glands.

Our last podcast of this series of four on Growth Hormone touches on navigating through the processes of GH replacement, from screening through testing, the selection of the proper doses, and other important factors.

Our third podcast in this Growth Hormone replacement series of four covers the benefits you might expect from treatment.  Dr. Blevins also explains his views on the risks involved and touches on the risk/benefit issues related to treatment.

In this second podcast on GH deficiency, Dr. Blevins explains the clinical symptoms and signs of this disorder.

In this first of a series on Growth Hormone deficiency, Dr Lewis Blevins focuses on definition, diagnosis, and setting the stage for future podcasts on GH Deficiency.  The series will cover the clinical characteristics of the disorder, what happens when you treat it, and how you go about getting started on treatment.

Listen to Dr Blevins insights and approaches to prolactinomas

In this podcast Dr Blevins discusses Prolactin and Prolactin excess.