By:  Nick Willson  Wednesday, 21. April 2004

Within the UK, the ADSHG holds regional meetings several times a year and an annual medical lecture. In addition, members host informal social gatherings when they can.  This section tells you what meetings are planned and provides reports of past meetings.

 Steroid replacement therapy: insights from the patient’s perspective

 - Annual Conference of the Society of Endocrinology - 3rd November 2003

Earlier this year, the ADSHG was invited to speak at the Nurses Session of the Society for Endocrinology annual conference. (Maggie Carson extended the invitation on behalf of the Nursing Committee).  Our topic was to be: Steroid replacement therapy: insights from the patient’s perspective.

The first Annual General Meeting of the Addison’s Disease Self Help Group took place on Saturday 10th May 2003 at Westminster Community College in London.

 The patient - consultant relationship

 - Pituitary Foundation 4th National Conference 23rd November 2002

How good a relationship do you have with your endocrinologist?  In this talk to the Pituitary Foundation conference, Professor John Wass and Katherine White address some of the factors that make for good communication.

 Weybridge Informal Meeting - 28 September 2002

The ADSHG held a very successful informal meeting this year in a room at a public house in Weybridge, on Saturday 28th September 2002.

 DHEA lecture London - 25 May 2002

Members of the ADSHG have been participating in the most thorough clinical trial to date of this little-understood adrenal hormone.  Find out more about the early findings from the Addenbrooke’s studies.