September 4, 2024 by Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Graves’ disease is a condition of the immune system that leads to an overactive thyroid. It is caused by antibodies attacking the thyroid by mistake. The thyroid and the hormones it produces are the gas pedal for the body. When someone produces too...
Medscape Medical News > Conference News Kerry Dooley Young July 02, 2024 ORLANDO, Florida — Clinicians should keep in mind concerns about overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer when prescribing glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) drugs, as the US black box warning about this risk for this class of medicines for certain tumors in mice could trigger excess...
Medscape Medical News Miriam E. Tucker DISCLOSURES | December 18, 2023 Nearly three quarters of dedicated thyroid ultrasounds don’t identify biopsy-recommended nodules, and over a third don’t identify any nodules, new research finds. “The number of thyroid ultrasounds performed in the United States has increased fivefold since 2002. This substantial increase produces a significant strain...
Miriam E. Tucker TOPLINE:European thyroid specialists report willingness to prescribe combination levothyroxine (LT4) + liothyronine (LT3) to patients with hypothyroidism who report persistent symptoms even after normalisation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. These specialists report LT4+LT3 prescribing despite nearly half attributing patients’ persistent symptoms to nonendocrine causes, and the lack of evidence supporting the efficacy...
Nancy A. Melville TOPLINE:Selenium supplementation is associated with improvements in key thyroid measures in patients with Hashimoto thyroiditis who are not treated with thyroid hormone replacement therapy, research from a new meta-analysis showed. METHODOLOGY:For the systematic review and meta-analysis, 35 randomized controlled trials were identified that included evaluation of selenium supplementation’s effects on thyroid function.The...
Written by Samantha C. Shapiro, MD | Reviewed by Mandy Armitage, MD Key takeaways: – Thyroid nodules are lumps on the thyroid gland. They’re extremely common.– Most thyroid nodules don’t cause symptoms and are found by accident.– Treatment depends on the type of thyroid nodule. Many don’t need any treatment at all. peakSTOCK/iStock via Getty...
by The Endocrine Society Exposure to dioxins can negatively impact thyroid function, according to a study presented Thursday at ENDO 2023, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, Ill. Dioxins are highly toxic compounds that are primarily produced by industrial processes, and their persistence in the environment makes them a significant public health concern. They are produced through a...
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is the foremost professional organization of doctors in the world committed to advancing thyroid patient care, educating the public about thyroid health, and doing research to help with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of thyroid illnesses. Thyroid illness affects almost 20 million Americans. But as many as 60% are unaware...
by American Institute of Physics When a person sings, the vibrations create waves in the tissue near the vocal tract called shear waves. If a tumor is present in the thyroid, the elasticity of its surrounding tissue increases, stiffening, and causing the shear waves to accelerate. Using ultrasound imaging to measure these waves, researchers can determine...
WASHINGTON–COVID-19 infection may cause subacute thyroiditis, according to a new case study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Subacute thyroiditis is an inflammatory thyroid disease characterized by neck pain and is usually preceded by an upper respiratory tract infection. It may be caused by a viral infection or a post-viral inflammatory reaction,...
