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Endocrine Insider - March 4, 2010

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Society and CDC Host Conference on Accuracy in Testosterone Testing
Last month The Endocrine Society, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), convened a meeting to reach consensus among stakeholders on the impediments and solutions to accuracy...

 
Long-Term Fix for Physician Payment Cuts Still Unclear—Member Action Needed
Though both houses of Congress have voted to avert Medicare physician payment cuts temporarily through April 1, the Senate and House of Representatives have yet to address a long-term solution to the recurring problem...

 
NIH and FDA Announce Partnership to Facilitate the Translation of Basic Research to Therapy
On February 24, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius joined National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg...

 
Endocrine Society Urges FDA to Re-Convene Committee to Reassess the Safety of Avandia
Last month the Senate Finance Committee issued a report to the FDA detailing concerns about the safety of rosiglitazone (Avandia). This report came as a result of an inquiry into the drug that began after the release of a 2007...