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Your endocrine system includes eight major glands throughout your body. These glands make hormones. Hormones are chemical messengers. They travel through your bloodstream to tissues or organs. Hormones work slowly and affect body processes from head to toe. These include
If your hormone levels are too high or too low, you may have a hormone disorder. Hormone diseases also occur if your body does not respond to hormones the way it is supposed to. Stress, infection and changes in your blood's fluid and electrolyte balance can also influence hormone levels.
In the United States, the most common endocrine disease is diabetes. There are many others. They are usually treated by controlling how much hormone your body makes. Hormone supplements can help if the problem is too little of a hormone.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Gene Therapy - Working to translate gene therapy research from the laboratory bench into Phase I clinical trials for the treatment of hematologic and endocrine diseases. The center has a GMP facility for clinical grade gene vector production.
APECED - Provides information on this rare autoimmune disease affecting mainly the endocrine glands.
Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases - Patient information on a variety of endocrine disorders.
Endotext.org - Covers clinical endocrine practice, including current information on the manifestations of endocrine disease, diagnosis, and treatment. Directed to physicians.
The Endocrine Society - Active professional endocrinology organization that promotes understanding of hormone, metabolism and gland communication through research to diagnose, treat, and prevent endocrine disease.
EndocrineWeb - Provides easy to understand pages on endocrine disease, conditions, hormone problems, and treatment options. Intended for the education of patients and their families.
Postgraduate Medicine: Endocrine origins of rheumatic disease - Discusses how patients who seek medical attention for a musculoskeletal complaint may have an underlying disorder that has gone undiagnosed.
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 (MEN 2) - EndocrineWeb describes this very uncommon inherited disease, its effects on the endocrine glands, the age it usually presents itself, and treatment.
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 - Contains questions and answers about this disease in detail. By Genetics Home Reference.
Endocrinology Section - University of Chicago - Information on endocrine disorders and diseases from the highly esteemed Endocrinology Section at the University of Chicago Medical Center.