Thyroid Gland

The FDA has proposed to revoke a regulation authorizing the use of brominated vegetable oil in food, the agency announced in a press release.

Adults who do not display symptoms of thyroid dysfunction should not be screened for such conditions, according to a recommendation statement from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care published in CMAJ.

CHICAGO—Compounded oral liquid levothyroxine products vary in stability, potency and consistency and present risks for patients, according to data presented the American Thyroid Association annual meeting.

CHICAGO — In this video exclusive, Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member Stephanie L. Lee, MD, PhD, FACE, ECNU, professor of medicine and director of thyroid health in the section of endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition at Boston Medical Center, discusses machine-learning programs for assessing thyroid nodules.

CHICAGO — In a cohort of adults who received a thyroid function test during hospitalization, most did not have a thyroid disease and those who did generally had mild conditions, according to findings presented at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association.

CHICAGO — When patients decide on the type of thyroidectomy procedure they will receive, they primarily weigh factors such as recurrent laryngeal nerve injury and mental nerve injury potential and cost, with younger patients also taking potential scarring into account, according to findings presented at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association.

CHICAGO — All-cause mortality risk is greater for adults aged at least 60 years with overt hypothyroidism compared with adults with euthyroidism, but the same is not true for cardiovascular mortality risk, according to findings presented at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association.

CHICAGO — In this video exclusive, Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member Stephanie L. Lee, MD, PhD, FACE, ECNU, professor of medicine and director of thyroid health in the section of endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition at Boston Medical Center, discusses four important studies presented at the American Thyroid Association Annual Meeting.

CHICAGO — Thyroid eye disease, a condition most commonly associated with Graves’ hypothyroidism, typically comes with a range of symptoms that can make everyday tasks challenging and quickly reduce quality of life. Within 18 months of a diagnosis of Graves’ disease, approximately 80% of patients will develop thyroid eye disease, with symptoms including proptosis, the main cause or morbidity, as well as eyelid retraction, strabismus and compressive optic neuropathy.

CHICAGO — Research is the backbone of the medical field. Through research, breakthroughs are made to discover how and why diseases develop and how to treat these conditions. For Sissy M. Jhiang, PhD, a professor in the department of physiology and cell biology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, her work on thyroid cancer research has helped push the field forward, particularly in terms of genetics, thyroid tumor development and radioiodine therapy.