Leslie Edwin, Author at CSRF - Cushing's Support & Research Foundation

Author Archives: Leslie Edwin

Doctors’ Response to June News Linking Cortisol Level to Death Risk with COVID-19

On June 18, 2020, online medical journal The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology published a report about the association between high cortisol and death rate with COVID-19. Numerous news outlets picked this up and ran with it, and it’s caused some confusion and alarm in our community. Click the link below for the report. Association between… Continue Reading

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Cushing’s Awareness Day 2020

April 8 is the birthday of Dr. Harvey Cushing, the doctor who put a name to what would eventually be called Cushing’s. Here is a tiny bit about Dr. Cushing that we have shared in the past. Leading up to today, we ran a small contest with membership and Facebook friends to submit original art… Continue Reading

Catherine M.

If you had to choose ONE element of your journey to change, what would it be, why, and what would you do to change it (can’t be “not having Cushing’s in the first place”!) I have always been interested in the written word. I was taught to read from a young age, and as a… Continue Reading

Wendy V.

They say when you place a frog in cold water and slowly raise the heat, you can boil the frog alive and it won’t realize that something is about to kill it because it comes on slowly. My body was boiling, but I did not perceive that this was abnormal. I thought that staying up… Continue Reading