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THIS year’s European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting 2022 was a hybrid congress, which focused on inclusion and interaction within the global diabetes community whether participants attended in person in Stockholm, Sweden, or virtually. In front of a live audience, Richard Holt, Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University of Southampton, UK, delivered the presentation, ‘“I just called to say I love you...” Diabetes tools for telemedicine: What we learned from COVID-19 and beyond?’ Holt spoke on how telemedicine has become increasingly popular in diabetes consultations, and how there has been a major rise in its use as a result of the pandemic. Holt reviewed the evidence on telemedicine for diabetes care, before exploring the practical issues experienced by patients and healthcare professionals during the pandemic, taking these as lessons to better inform how we can use telemedicine going forward. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid expansion of the use of telemedicine, and many have had to adapt to the use of this in diabetes care.

In a live session at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) 38th Annual Meeting, a pertinent debate over reproductive rights in this millennium was held between Jennifer Merchant, University Panthéon-Assas Paris II, France, and Marleen Temmerman, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. The two leading experts, respectively, held a lively discussion on positive outcomes of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations (UN) versus the challenges that are still experienced in rights to reproductive health today.

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ADVISING individuals with diseases of the heart on what types and intensities of sport to participate in is not a practice cardiologists typically have official guidelines on. A taskforce from ESC has now come together and created guidelines, the first of their kind, on exercise and sports participation in patients with cardiovascular disease. The guidelines were presented at the ESC Congress 2020 in a session chaired by Prof Antonio Pelliccia, Scientific Director of the Institute of Sports Medicine & Science from Rome, Italy. Pelliccia was joined by Prof Martin Halle, President of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC), Munich, Germany, and Prof Matthias Wilhem, Head of the Centre for Preventive Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Department of Cardiology at the Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. The guidelines derived from the need to assist patients who had experienced cardiovascular events and were questioning their limits of sports participation. Prof Halle commented on his experience in the taskforce: “The level of evidence is rather low, so it is very much the personal perspective and the experience of the experts which made us come to that one conclusion in the guidelines. It is something that should be developed in years to come.” A series of videos were shown, presented by specialists who were invited to discuss some of the most relevant topics of the guidelines.