Mark L. Fuerst

New guidelines recommend that testosterone replacement therapy be restricted to men who have stable disease, only after a discussion of the potential risks and benefits.

A new study also shows that patients with type 2 DM are more prone to infections years before they receive a diagnosis and may end up with an increased demand for antibiotics.

Recent USPSTF recommendations will go far to identify patients with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, but maybe not far enough.

Here, during Respiratory Care Week, studies address safety concerns with new opioid use, relationships between PTSD and COPD, and a new smartphone app for better patient compliance.

Risk does not go up with exposure to testosterone therapy over a 5-year period or according to total testosterone injections.

Contrary to media reports, a new position statement suggested there is no compelling evidence that testosterone therapy increases or decreases cardiovascular risk.

This liquid instillation approach may lead to more effective treatment for a variety of lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis, COPD, bronchopneumonia, and lung cancer.

Heart age is higher than actual age in most men and women, so many don’t understand their risk of cardiovascular diseases and are missing opportunities to prevent them.

The goal is to avoid treating men who don’t need surgery or radiation. A new long-term study points to the potential of surveillance as a treatment option.

Lethal prostate cancer is less-not more-likely to develop in patients with asthma. The Health Professionals Follow-up Study answers key questions about why.

More men are turning not to illegal anabolic steroids but to legal appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs, ones that pose a health threat all their own.

ED may raise the risk of diabetes, coffee may lower it, and the evidence against sugary drinks continues to mount.

Infections with pneumonia send a substantial number of older adults to the hospital, much more than younger adults. Researchers are calling for new rapid diagnostic tests.

In the diabetes news: diet and physical activity programs may help prevent type 2 DM, patiromer shows promise for hyperkalemia, metformin may treat portal hypertension.

Results of a new study suggest men with borderline "low T" may have undiagnosed depression or depressive symptoms and that screening should be increased.

A woman is 277% more likely to get help with weight loss than a man, according to new research in Britain. It can’t be much different in the US. Here’s how to help the guys.

The GOLD criteria for COPD assessment have not lived up to their promise. Internationally agreed standards seem to be the real deal.

A protective endothelial function effect may be seen with exenatide in patients who have long-standing type 2 diabetes in the postprandial period after short-term therapy.

Heading the diabetes news: therapeutic targeting of cellular senescence, food order affects glucose and insulin levels, sugar causes heart muscle damage, central obesity genetic score linked to type 2 DM risk.

Undiagnosed lung disease in smokers, the impact of guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia in children, and climate change and asthma attacks make headlines in the respiratory news.

Hypothyroidism increases the risk of diabetes, but in subclinical hypothyroidism the increased risk is prominent only with statin use.

NSAIDs may impair fertility in women with mild musculoskeletal pain. Damage is reversible once NSAIDs are discontinued, according to a new study.

Exacerbations in asthma are common long after patients receive step down medications, and other respiratory disease news.

Women who exercise may lower their risk, although those who have received hormone replacement therapy may not get the same benefit. Organized programs can help.

Nicotinamide may lower the incidence of new nonmelanoma skin cancers in patients at high risk for skin cancer, providing a new chemopreventive opportunity.

The association remained statistically significant even after adjusting for age, waist circumference, smoking, and other confounders.

One theory posited by the authors of a new study is that asthma patients may have an enhanced propensity for a CD4+ T-cell helper response.

Outcomes are poorer for young women and others with breast cancer when blood sugar levels reflect prediabetes or undiagnosed diabetes. What can you do?

Metabolic disorders in patients with diabetes place them at particularly high risk for CV morbidity. Find insights on Dx and Tx in these slides.

Obesity was declared a hormone-based disease in 2012, creating the need for a structured approach to obesity medicine. The AACE has taken the lead.