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  Injector   Understanding and meeting the needs of those using growth hormone injection devices  
    The aim of this survey was, firstly, to identify which attributes of an r-hGH administration device are considered most important to physicians, teenage patients, parents of young children requiring GH and nurses who have experience of r-hGH administration, and, secondly, to determine how they rate existing devices in each of these key attributes.e (NO). Read more..  


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Erectile Dysfunction - Present and Future Therapeutic Options

Asif Muneer, Nigel Borley and David J Ralph
    Substernal oxyphil parathyroid adenoma producing PTHrP with hypercalcaemia and normal PTH level  
    We present a case of persistent hypercalcemia with a normal level of intact-parathyroid hormone due to a substernal parathyroid adenoma, treated with radioguided parathyroidectomy.  


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Minimizing Cardiovascular Complications by Early Diagnosis of Diabetes

  Graph   In his 1988 Banting lecture, Reaven noted that resistance to insulin was common among patients with coronary artery disease.4 Some of these patients were frankly diabetic, but others had mildly impaired glucose tolerance and some had normal glucose tolerance.  
    This article focuses on the early diagnosis of diabetes as a means of reducing CVD risk.  


Research Article

Accuracy of self-reported height measurements in parents and its effect on mid-parental target height calculation

  Height   Clinical determination of mid-parental height is an important part of the assessment of a child's growth, however our clinical impression has been that parents cannot be relied upon to accurately report their own heights. Therefore, we conducted this study to assess the accuracy of parental height self-reporting and its effect on calculated mid-parental target height for children presenting to a pediatric endocrinology office.  
     


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