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Updated thresholds outperform those recommended by American Thyroid Association guidelines for patients with medullary thyroid cancer.
Recent research found that weight loss drugs like Ozempic may be contributing to a national trend of thyroid cancer overdiagnosis. Here's why.
(HealthDay News) — Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) use is not associated with an increased risk for thyroid cancer over the short term, according to a study published online ...
In honor of Thyroid Awareness Month, we are exploring the causes of thyroid diseases and thyroid cancer in our community.
Glucagon is a hormone that signals the liver to release glucose into the bloodstream. It's typically given by injection to counteract severe hypoglycemia in people who have diabetes.
Yet despite a long history of research on how thyroid hormone influences different organs, its effects on arguably the most crucial organ - the brain - have remained shrouded in mystery.
Research in mice sheds light on how thyroid hormone alters wiring in the brain. Findings reveal that thyroid hormone syncs up the brain and body to drive exploratory behavior. Researchers say ...
Thyroid hormone plays a key role in regulating a range of physiologic functions, including metabolism, temperature, heart rate, and growth. It accomplishes this impressive array of activities by ...
The hormones produced by the thyroid are thyroxine, often called T4, and triiodothyronine, or T3. As well as these, a small subset of cells within the thyroid produces calcitonin.
AS judged by its widespread use, thyroid hormone is considered of value in the treatment of obesity by both physician and patient. In contrast to such use there are meager data concerning the effec ...
Conclusion This case of MEN2B medullary thyroid cancer with long-term survival presents how the effectiveness of different treatment modalities can be estimated using log-transformed calcitonin levels ...