Earlier this fall, Medscape Medical News spoke to endocrinologists Angela M. Leung, MD, and Karen Tsai, MD, on how to interpret abnormal results of thyroid hormone tests. To address some additional ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mothers who give birth to babies with neonatal hypothyroidism tend to have higher levels of free thyroxine and ...

Thyroid blood tests are an important part of diagnosing and treating thyroid disease. Based on how high or low the different values are—including key hormones such as TSH and T4—the lab can determine ...

Using levothyroxine to treat subclinical hypothyroidism should be considered on a patient-by-patient basis and be started only after at least two thyroid-stimulating-hormone (TSH) tests show an ...

At first, Olympic marathoner Jared Ward thought he was just tired. He’s 33, with five kids ranging from 11 months to 9 years old. Surely, some extra fatigue comes with the territory. But Ward—a ...

Three thyroid-related conditions that children may more commonly develop include Graves’ disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and thyroid nodules. Talking with their pediatrician about symptoms and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most patients with differentiated thyroid cancer on levothyroxine suppression therapy do not have a ...