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Updated October 25, 2007

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America's famous daytime diva Oprah Winfrey announced in the Fall of 2007 that she was struggling with thyroid disease.
America's famous daytime diva Oprah Winfrey announced she was struggling with thyroid disease
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Winfrey discussed her thyroid problem in her magazine, and on her television program, generating a great deal of controversy based on the metaphysical, non-medical approach she followed and endorsed. Follow Oprah Winfrey's thyroid condition in the news here.

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