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The Editorial Board is delighted to congratulate Dr Stefano Testa of the Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, on being selected as this year’s winner of the prestigious Cushing’s Hub Competition.

Measuring biochemical severity scores before adrenalectomy in people with mild autonomous cortisol secretion could help to identify those likely to develop adrenal insufficiency, suggest researchers.

Surgery to remove all or part of an adrenal gland can help reduce hypertension in people with unilateral incidentalomas and mild autonomous cortisol secretion, suggest findings from the CHIRACIC study.

Chronic hypercortisolism in patients with Cushing’s syndrome may disrupt circadian clock genes, which can alter the daily rhythm of immune cell subpopulations beyond remission, suggests research.

Salivary cortisol may be a suitable alternative to serum cortisol when testing for adrenal insufficiency, suggests research showing high diagnostic accuracy on the cosyntropin test.

Patients with endogenous Cushing’s syndrome have a higher incidence of cancer than the general population, suggests a nationwide cohort study from Taiwan.