ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Lancet 2019; 394: 2119–24. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32527-9• The author is a physician and has served as Health Minister in her home country, Peru.• She reviews the role of leaders in low-resource settings in the development of corruption and extends her comments to high-resource environments.• She discusses 6 types of corruption: abse...

To read the full abstract: Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2019; 3: 822–30. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30266-4• The upper age limit of paediatric care varies markedly from country to country.• The authors surveyed 1372 paediatricians in 115 countries and found that, based on their personal experience, the upper age limit of pediatric services had increased over the last 20...

To read the full abstract: Lancet Glob Health 2020; 8: e730–36. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30104-2• Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015. Universal health coverage is at the centre of SDG #3 but lacks metrics that make it possible to assess how effective the provided healthcare is.• WHO and UNICEF convened a group of ...

To read the full abstract: Growth Hormone & IGF Research 2020; 50: 48–56. doi: 10.1016/j.ghir.2019.11.004• The authors summarize the historical aspects of the discovery of mechanisms underlying short and tall stature in South America.• Tall stature stories include gigantism in Patagonia, acromegaly and the relationship between glucose metabolism and GH excess.• S...

To read the full abstract: BMJ Case Rep 2020;13:e231737. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-231737• The authors report 2 cases of severe short stature, Laron Syndrome and Cornelia-Delange-like syndrome, followed in Ecuador, a country with limited resources.• They highlight the tendency of a society to discuss children with severe short stature with derogatory terms to automatically assume tha...