The endocrine system includes glands and hormones that regulate: growth and development, metabolism, reproductive processes, mood, and more things. Pediatric endocrinology specialists treat disorders ...

In Pediatrics, a group of experts on behalf of the Global Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes group define the health-care needs of children with endocrine disorders and diabetes mellitus. Particular ...

Children in Alaska can be affected by unique pediatric endocrine disorders like rickets, precocious or delayed puberty, short stature, thyroid dysfunction and pituitary gland disorders. Many of these ...

The Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology is focused on the diagnosis and treatment of infants, children and adolescents with diabetes, growth and physical maturation problems and disorders of the ...

Hormones are chemicals within the body that dictate how other parts of the body function. For example, certain hormones produced in the brain of a child determine the child’s growth, puberty, and ...

The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the use of special regulatory processes to facilitate licensure of two medications that ...

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UCSF Children’s Hospital has been ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals in nine pediatric specialties, making it one of the top-ranked facilities in California, according to the new 2009 ...

Texas Children’s Hospital ranked #4 in 2020 overall and in the top five in seven specialties with Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology ranking #5. Baylor College of Medicine pediatric program ranked ...

This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue, as part of the Top Doctors cover story. Click here to subscribe. Catherine M. Pihoker, M.D., diabetes, growth disorders, neuro-oncology; Seattle ...