Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 55-year-old man was sent for consultation for a hypermetabolic thyroid found on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET ...

The thyroid is a gland located at the base of the neck. It makes thyroid hormones, which control the way the body uses energy. A thyroid nodule is a solid or fluid-filled lump found within the thyroid ...

The iodide dye used in heart scans and other medical imaging might damage some people's thyroid glands, which could cause important health problems later on, researchers say. In a new study, they ...

But the diseases occur rarely, are eminently treatable and should not lead patients to put off having scans, experts said. Patients who had signs of thyroid disease were between two and three times as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 73-year-old man was sent for consultation for a hypermetabolic thyroid nodule found on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have low thyroid levels. My blood tests say that the levels are OK, but I still have all the symptoms. I received biological hormones, which helped a lot, but yams bind to the ...

A slightly underactive thyroid gland, the low end of normal, may help to explain some infertility of unknown cause, according to findings of a cross-sectional study published online in the Journal of ...

Thyroid disease refers to all conditions affecting the thyroid gland and how much thyroid hormone it can make; these include hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, thyroid cancer, and different types of ...

Of the four main types of thyroid cancer, the vast majority are differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Radioiodine (I-131) therapy has been used in the management of patients with DTC since the first ...

The thyroid, small, butterfly-shaped, sitting quietly at the front of your neck, quietly runs the show for many of your ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I'm set to have a CT scan of my lungs with iodine dye. I have hypothyroidism and am on 25 mg of levothyroxine. Should I take the medicine the day of the test? Or should I have the CT ...