Endocrine disruption during pregnancy and genetic drivers of bone disease were among the topics experts from UC San Francisco presented at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society — ENDO 2025 — in San Francisco, July 12 to 15, 2025.

Considered the leading global meeting in endocrinology research and clinical care with over 7,000 attendees, 2,500 abstracts and 200 sessions, ENDO 2025 presented the latest developments in hormone science and medicine from investigators, expert clinicians and educators worldwide. 

For patients with Parkinson's disease, changes in their ability to walk can be dramatic. “Parkinson’s gait,” as it is often called, can include changes in step length and asymmetry between legs. This gait dysfunction reduces a person’s mobility, increases fall risk, and significantly impacts a patient’s quality of life.

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these lesions after procedures to treat abnormal heart rhythms.

The study, which appeared July 7 in Heart Rhythm, found that patients with lesions in the occipital and parietal lobe were 12 times more likely than those who did not have them to experience migraine-related visual auras.