This new edition of Essential Endocrinology and Diabetes has been rewritten and revised by a new author team. Easy-to-use and comprehensively treating all areas of endocrinology and diabetes, it is the perfect core text for medical students, biomedical science students, and junior doctors, and a useful tool for clinicians wishing to reacquaint themselves with some of the basic science behind their day-to-day clinical practice. * Includes new chapters on endocrine neoplasia, diabetes (type 1, type 2, complications) and obesity * New features include learning objectives, key points boxes and case histories * Content now reorganized into 3 parts: principles of endocrinology; clinical endocrinology; and clinical diabetes and obesity