A significantly higher prevalence of thyroid disorders was found among patients with hidradenitis suppurativa, and additional study to increase the strength of the association was encourage in a research letter publish in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Thyroid disorders can range from a small, harmless goiter (enlarge gland) that needs no treatment to…
Radioactive Iodine; Many patients diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer perceive that they have no choice about receiving radioactive iodine (RAI), according to a study published online July 8 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Lauren P. Wallner, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues surveyed 2,632 eligible patients diagnosed with…
Cohort of adults with obesity or morbid obesity had a lower rate of papillary thyroid malignancy after thyroid surgery than adults without obesity, according to findings published in the Journal of Surgical Research. “This study highlights the unclear association between obesity and thyroid cancer, suggesting other factors may be involve in the etiology of [papillary…
Thyroid Cancer; Nearly a million Americans live with thyroid cancer and doctors will diagnose more than 50,000 new cases this year. Fortunately, the survival rate for this kind of cancer is one of the best. Five years after diagnosis, more than 98% of patients are survivors. Now a team of researchers led by Alliric Willis,…
Memory Capacity; In this study team of neuroscience researchers at the University of Southern California have identified a surprising new role for the “hunger hormone” ghrelin. Ghrelin has previously been recognized for its unique role in sending hunger signals from the gut to the brain, but, as presented this week at the annual meeting of…
Growth Hormone; The off-label use of recombinant human growth hormone as an anti-aging “wonder drug” despite evidence suggesting serious risks continues to rise in the United States and worldwide; so an issue that is confounding endocrinologists who note that lower levels of GH could actually be protective in aging. In people with true GH deficiency,…
Female Hormones; Women who fill prescriptions for compound, custom-blended hormone therapy may get capsules or creams that don’t contain the correct amount of medicine, a recent study suggests. Compound hormone therapy are custom blend by pharmacists instead of factory-made by drug companies and approved for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Sometimes…
Hormone Medications; This last decade has significantly lower doses of oestrogen and progestogen used to treat menopause symptoms. In this study finnish health care professionals are cutting back on doses of hormones to treat symptoms associated with female menopause. “For a long time, it was thought that the larger the dose, the greater the risk.…
Transgender Patients; individuals often cite a lack of knowledgeable providers as the biggest barrier to their finding care. A new guide published in the Annals of Internal Medicine aims to help clinicians better understand the needs of this population and covers issues such as medical and surgical treatment, practice improvement, and medicolegal and societal questions. Care of transgender individuals…
Endocrine Tumors; Researchers have discovered two distinct sub types of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors known as pNETs that have dramatically different risks of recurrence following surgical treatment [or surgery]. The finding could yield predictive tests, ease anxiety in patients whose tumors are found to be unlikely to recur, while focusing vigilant follow-up monitoring on patients with…
Women’s Hormone; When Eleanor Morgan approached publishers with an idea for a book investigating the effect of hormones on women’s health, they were “squeamish” about it. “Women, periods, blood, vaginas. It wasn’t an easy sell and I have no doubt because I saw the emails that came from sales departments,” she tells me over the…
Antidepressants reduce deaths by more than a third in patients with diabetes and depression, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The effect of antidepressants (ATDs) use on mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) has not yet been sufficiently studied although co-morbid depression is common in this…