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Antenatal thyroid screening fails to improve IQ in 3-year-olds

Children of mothers screened and treated for reduced thyroid function during pregnancy show no signs of improved IQ compared to women who receive no treatment, new research has uncovered.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Use of iodinated contrast media in imaging procedures appears to affect thyroid function

Exposure to iodinated contrast media during imaging procedures is associated with changes in thyroid function, and increased risk of developing hyperthyroidism, according to a report in the January 23 issue of Archives of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coexisting medical conditions increase treatment costs

More than 250,000 hip fractures occur every year in the U.S., often resulting in hospitalization, surgery, nursing-home admission, long-term disability, and/or extended periods of rehabilitation. Independent existing medical ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twenty-year protein mystery solved with surprising results

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the CRYM protein, previously connected with deafness and cancer, has now proven that it has an enzymatic function. This opens up new implications for the treatment of neurological ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Surgeons aged between 35 and 50 provide the safest care

Surgeons aged between 35 and 50 years provide the safest care compared with their younger or older colleagues, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New drug screening identifies chemical agents with potent anti-cancer activity

Drugs already approved for clinical use across a variety of therapeutic categories can be screened to identify effective agents for thyroid cancer according to a recent study accepted for publication in the Endocrine Society's ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Debate over who needs a thyroid check in pregnancy

(AP) -- Check-ups during pregnancy tend to focus around the waist. But there's growing debate about which mothers-to-be should have a gland in their neck tested, too.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cleveland Clinic researcher discovers genetic cause of thyroid cancer

Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered three genes that increase the risk of thyroid cancer, which is has the largest incidence increase in cancers among both men and women.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Removal of lymph nodes during surgery for thyroid cancer may be beneficial

Papillary thyroid cancer accounts for the majority of all thyroid malignancies, which primarily impact women. A new study indicates that routinely removing lymph nodes in the neck in these cancer patients may help prevent ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

BRAF addiction of thyroid cancers makes them therapeutically vulnerable

Papillary carcinoma is the most common form of thyroid cancer. Approximately one quarter of these carcinomas have mutations in the BRAF gene. The prevalence of such mutations is even greater in high-grade carcinomas, particularly ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers grow pituitary glands from embryonic stem cells

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in Nature reports that scientists have been able to grow working pituitary glands from embryonic stem cells from mice. When these were transplanted into mice with defects in the pi ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Technology makes storing radioactive waste safer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have developed new technology capable of removing radioactive material from contaminated water and aiding clean-up efforts following nuclear ...

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Use of over-the-counter thyroid support pills is risky, study finds

People who use over-the-counter "thyroid support" supplements may be putting their health at risk, according to a study being presented at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association. The supplements contain varying ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research involving thyroid hormone lays foundation for more targeted drug development

Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists advances a strategy for taming the side effects and enhancing the therapeutic benefits of steroids and other medications that work by disrupting the activity ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antineoplastic agents associated with thyroid dysfunction

Antineoplastic agents such as immunotherapies and targeted therapies that specifically target signaling pathways in cancer cells are associated with thyroid dysfunction in 20%-50% of cancer patients taking them, which can ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0