The thyroid gland at the base of the neck secretes an essential hormone crucial for development and metabolism. Both ...

The result is fatigue, weigh gain and depression. The most common cause of hypothyroidism in the U.S. is an autoimmune ...

Without treatment, hypothyroidism can cause symptoms such as fatigue ... attack the thyroid gland in autoimmune-related thyroid disease. However, studies also showed no difference in levels ...

Thyroid disease is often missed in older adults because its symptoms overlap with those of “normal aging.” In this ...

This post was updated Jan. 31 at 12:28 a.m. Dr. Stephanie Smooke Praw, the interim clinical chief of UCLA Health’s Division ...

When elevated thyroid hormones cause symptoms, this is known as thyrotoxicosis ... Not everyone with hyperthyroidism experiences heart disease. Hyperthyroidism occurs across a spectrum of severity ...

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye had faced many sickle cell complications, but her hypothyroidism diagnosis was, at first, ...

Unless you have one that isn’t functioning properly, you probably haven’t given any thought to your thyroid gland today. Well ...

Thyroid cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the thyroid gland. In 2020, there were ...

COVID-19 vaccines were not associated with increased risk for thyroid diseases but were associated with increased risk for exacerbated hypothyroidism.

Researchers say their ... Anti-Rheumatic Drugs Could Prevent Thyroid Disease Nov. 22, 2023 — Anti-rheumatic drugs used for rheumatoid arthritis might prevent the development of autoimmune ...