by IPWSO | Dec 8, 2021 | News
Has your PWS Association thought about hosting an IPWSO conference? In the past these have been held in the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, USA, New Zealand, Romania, Taiwan, UK, Canada and most recently Cuba. Ireland will host in 2022, maybe you could host in 2025? The...
by IPWSO | Sep 13, 2021 | Blog
As part of our work celebrating IPWSO’s 30th Anniversary in 2021, we asked members of the global PWS community to make films to highlight the challenges they face, as well as the achievements and developments that are happening around the world. We hope you...
by IPWSO | Feb 19, 2021 | Blog
Do national laws matter? IPWSO President Tony Holland writes about the importance of education and of enshrining a right to education in national laws. At a recent Leadership ECHO® meeting the focus was on the provision of education for children with PWS. After the...
by IPWSO | Feb 15, 2021 | News
IPWSO argues that Growth Hormone treatment should be universally available not just to children but also to adults with PWS. Our Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board has written to the Editor of the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases calling for the use of Growth...
by IPWSO | Feb 11, 2021 | News
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown exciting results from trials of a drug called semaglutide on people with severe obesity. The trial showed that people lost an average of 15kg when receiving semaglutide compared with only 2.6kg in...
