Thyroid hormone replacement is a medication you take to replace hormones if your thyroid isn’t producing enough or if your thyroid has been removed. Thyroid hormone replacement typically involves ...

Since the regeneration of thyroid glands has remained challenging, patients with thyroid disorders who have their glands surgically removed must take hormone replacement medication for the rest of ...

Thyroid storm and thyrotoxicosis are two conditions that relate to excessive thyroid hormones. However, they differ significantly in their severity and implications. Thyrotoxicosis refers to high ...

Everything from your metabolism to your fertility is controlled by hormones. There are more than 50 hormones in the human body, and some are really good at one job, while others multitask. Sound ...

Subclinical hyperthyroidism means that a person has low or undetectable levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) with normal levels of free thyroid hormones. It usually does not cause symptoms. The ...

A widely prescribed thyroid medication called levothyroxine may cause bone loss and increase the risk of the bone disease osteoporosis, according to new research—but this does not mean Americans ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, takes a look at visible signs of thyroid disease. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible): ...

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