ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Preface: A PubMed search for “Medicine and Science” limited to the last 12 months will return 303 153 hits, and if filtered for reviews 38 153. These numbers change to 802 and 127, respectively, when the search is performed with the term “Science and Medicine”. This shows that it is exceedingly difficult to search for “the” most important articles to provide in this chapter. Thus we have taken a different approach, by asking members of the team of pediatric endocrinology in Bern to help us in providing their favorite articles in their fields of interest, published in major journals and not already included in other chapters. What resulted is a potpourri of articles covering basic, translation and clinical themes, mostly related to endocrinology. For their efforts in drafting commentaries on their chosen articles, we would like to acknowledge Therina du Toit, Marco Janner, Idoia Martinez de LaPiscina, Emanuele Pignatti, Christoph Saner, and Grit Sommer.

We all hope you enjoy our personal selection of the most important literature published in “Medicine and Science” in the last 12 months.