Thyroid Disease News

AACE 2022 Debate Continues on Combination Therapy for Hypothyroidism Clinicians shouldn't dismiss patients who complain about residual symptoms despite TSH normalization with levothyroxine, say thyroid experts who have rekindled a long-running debate at the AACE meeting.
Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
AACE 2022 Biotin: Good for Hair and Nails, Bad for Thyroid Lab Tests New study supports prior finding that about 7% of the population uses products containing biotin in doses high enough to interfere with many laboratory tests, including those of thyroid function.
Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
Keeping Thyroid Hormone Treatment On Target Is Key for the Heart 'Both undertreatment and overtreatment were associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes,' including higher mortality, but keeping thyroid hormone levels normal is a tricky task, researchers admit.
Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
Substantial Medical Debt, Bankruptcy Linked to Thyroid Cancer Compared to other cancers, patients with thyroid cancer may face more significant financial woes, including higher rates of bankruptcy.
Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022
Alert FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for Toripalimab In a complete response letter, the FDA asked drug manufacturers Coherus and Junshi Biosciences for a quality process change that the companies say is readily addressable.
News Alerts, May 02, 2022
ACP-IM 2022 Treating Frail Patients Requires 'Precision Gerontology' While frailty is a common condition in older adults, its heterogeneous nature makes management more complex.
Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2022
Undertreated Hypothyroidism May Worsen Hospital Outcomes Large database study finds association between suboptimal hypothyroidism treatment and longer hospital stay, higher readmission rate.
Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2022
Normalized Hypothyroidism Linked With Improved Kidney Function Among patients with hypothyroidism but normal kidney function, proteinuria and serum creatinine levels were decreased, and eGFR was increased after levothyroxine-produced euthyroidism in a small study.
First Look, April 18, 2022
Mutation Testing in Advanced Thyroid Cancer All patients with advanced thyroid disease and most patients with incurable radioiodine refractory differentiated thyroid cancer should undergo somatic mutational testing, say experts.
Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2022
Monitor Children's Thyroids After Iodine Exposure for Imaging, FDA Says Neonates and those with underlying conditions are at greatest risk for adverse effects from iodinated contrast media, the agency says.
Medscape Medical News, March 30, 2022
Radioactive Iodine Shows No Benefit in Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer A prospective, randomized trial provides further evidence that use of radioiodine ablation after surgery for low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer does not result in any benefit.
Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2022
ACTRIMS 2022 Stem Cell Transplantation a Potential Game Changer for MS? Relapse rates dropped to zero after an intensive regimen of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant, but improvement is greater with lower baseline disability.
Medscape Medical News, March 03, 2022
Switching Among Generic Levothyroxine Products? No Problem Switching among generic levothyroxine sodium products made by different manufacturers does not result in clinically significant changes in TSH levels, according to a comparative-effectiveness study.
Reuters Health Information, February 28, 2022
Causal Evidence for Autoimmunity in Dementia? Researchers have identified novel biomarkers for dementia-causing diseases that may assist in identifying risk factors and development of new therapies.
First Look, February 28, 2022
Food for Thought: Endocrinologist Uses Food Art to Teach Patients How one doctor combines her love of art and cooking with her scientific side to sculpt artworks that help teach her kids about science, and her patients about their endocrine disorders.
Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2022
COVID Risk Factors in Multiple Sclerosis Identified New research has identified specific risk factors that increase the risk of COVID-19 in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2022
Radioiodine Cures Most Thyrotoxicosis, but Hypothyroidism Often Results In an observational, single-center, New Zealand study of 222 patients with thyrotoxicosis, treatment with radioiodine led to frequent cures but left many needing thyroxine maintenance.
First Look, January 31, 2022
Of Benign Thyroidectomies, 9% Carry Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinomas A retrospective review of more than 1800 presumably benign thyroidectomy specimens showed that 9% contained papillary thyroid microcarcinomas.
First Look, January 24, 2022
Preschool Boys' Behaviors Traced Back to Moms' Thyroid Hormones Changes in maternal thyroid hormone levels during pregnancy may predict whether male offspring are aggressive or withdrawn preschoolers.
Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2022
Case Series Show No Consensus on Treatment for Palmoplantar Pustulosis, Generalized Pustular Psoriasis "These case series confirm the rarity of both generalized pustular psoriasis and palmoplantar pustulosis...and the lack of effective treatment options," the lead author said.
Medscape Medical News, January 04, 2022

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