The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) has launched a website -- they indicate that it's for patients and healthcare professionals -- called the Patient Safety Exchange. The purpose ... Read More

Last week, I reported on talk show host Oprah Winfrey's latest diet plan. Oprah, who is hypothyroid, is on a new vegan 21 Day Cleanse" diet, and it relies heavily ... Read More

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has released new guidelines for practitioners who are overseeing thyroid patients receiving radioactive iodine treatment (Iodine 131). The guidelines recommend that existing recommendations to protect ... Read More

Last week, I blogged about a strangely titled blog post, "Fat, mad, middle aged, menopausal women," that showed up on the British web site, Onmedica.com. It turns out that the ... Read More

If you are looking for a diagnosis, should you go to one of the "Internet diagnosis" web sites to get medical advice? Dr. Marie Savard, a frequent contributor here at ... Read More

Talk show diva and hypothyroidism sufferer Oprah Winfrey has embarked on a new "21 Day Cleanse Diet" that she is touting on her show, and at the show's website. ... Read More

Onmedica.com identifies itself as "The website for doctors and UK healthcare: the leading online medical publication for daily news, views, blogs and learning." One of the site's bloggers is Joanne ... Read More

We had more than a thousand responses to last week's poll: "How Much Do You Pay for a Monthly Supply of Your Thyroid Medication?" Find out the results and ... Read More

Irene Rubaum-Keller says that we all come with internal "full" meters. But many of us have been conditioned to ignore ours. Once your "full" meter is broken, can it ever ... Read More

There was a Kaiser Family Foundation poll back in late 2007 that measured whether Americans were most worried about not being able to afford their health insurance, losing their jobs ... Read More

Over at HonestMedicine.com, patient advocate Julia Schopick has started an important new series on lifesaving treatments that we, as patients, rarely hear about...if ever. She has identified a number of ... Read More

The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute has developed consumer guides on health insurance that are specific to each state and the District of Columbia. At the group's HealthInsuranceinfo.net web site, ... Read More

Last week, we found out that some people are paying $80 to $100 or more for a three-month supply of Levoxyl. Some people pay a lot less, others far more. ... Read More

I guarantee you, you are NOT going to see this sort of response in an American Q&A newspaper column by a doctor. Over at the UK's Times of London ... Read More

According to a study released by Medco Health Solutions, in 2007, 51 percent of Americans with health insurance were taking prescription medications for at least one chronic health condition. Here ... Read More

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is focusing attention on a new study that has found that PFOA, a chemical used to make Teflon, food wrappers and other products, may be ... Read More

In a plenary lecture at the recent European Congress of Endocrinology, held in Berlin, Germany from May 3-7, 2008, Dr. Wilmar Wiersinga made the case that while there are many ... Read More

If you have a small (1 cm or less) papillary thyroid cancer -- known as a papillary microcarcinoma -- should you have a total thyroidectomy? Is radioiodine remnant ablation after ... Read More

Periodically, I create Open Threads on the various Thyroid Forums, where I pose a question that may be of interest to all you wise and wonderful forum members and visitors. ... Read More

Consumer Reports has released a study that found that the same bottle of pills can vary by as much as $100 or more, depending on the pharmacy you're using. ... Read More

Many people write to me asking me to please explain "why, when my TSH results show that my thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) has dropped, does the doctor want to LOWER ... Read More

Dallas, Texas endocrinologist Dr. David Feinstein, and his friend and colleague in Canada, noted family physician and holistic stress management expert Dr. Mel Borins, believe that there is a place ... Read More