Thyroid News

Endocrine Today has compiled a list of the top five news reports with expert perspectives posted in May. Healio.com/Endocrinology readers were interested in a drop in diabetes incidence, an increase in pediatric DKA cases, benefits of bariatric surgery for teens, and more.

Costs for the 49 top-selling brand-name prescription drugs in the United States increased by a median 76% between 2012 and 2017, with all but one drug displaying regular annual or biannual price increases, according to an analysis of pharmacy claims data published in JAMA Network Open.

A panel of researchers strongly advised against the use of thyroid hormones to treat adults with subclinical hypothyroidism in a recent BMJ Rapid Recommendations guide published in The BMJ.

Endocrine Today has compiled a list of the top 10 news reports posted from meeting news coverage during the first few months of 2019.

Preparing to do a thyroid biopsy, I was reviewing the prior biopsy the patient had few years ago, when I noticed something.

Thyroid-stimulating hormone levels for boys and girls do not differ significantly during the first 2 years of life, although these levels are affected by different hormones for each sex, according to findings published in Thyroid.

More cases of thyroid cancer are found among those living in urban areas in the U.S., but this population also has a higher rate of survival compared with those in rural areas, according to findings published in The Journal of Rural Health.

Although radioiodine therapy can lower levels of platelets, white blood cells and hemoglobin in some older adults with differentiated thyroid cancer, the therapy does not suppress marrow to a clinically significant degree, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Patients with intermediate- or high-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma saw no increased overall or disease-free survival benefit when undergoing early vs. delayed radioactive iodine therapy after thyroidectomy, according to findings published in Clinical Endocrinology.

Older adults who underwent thyroid surgery experienced more overall postsurgical complications and a longer mean length of stay when compared with propensity-matched younger controls; however, rates of organ-specific complications between groups were similar, according to findings published in the Journal of Surgical Research.