The cause of an underactive thyroid can be primary, secondary, or tertiary. Hollywood actor and author Stanley Tucci underwent high-dose radiation and chemotherapy after a tumour was discovered at the ...

I would be so tired in the afternoon, like completely exhausted by one o’clock and I was like, something’s wrong with me,” said the actor.

Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Dr. Jack Hartnell explores how societies at the time understood the human body, and ...

Normal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels generally fall between 0.5 and 5.0 milliunits per liter (mU/L). If your TSH level is higher than 5.0 mU/L it suggests an underactive thyroid, or ...

Mild deficiency (50 to 99 mcg of iodine per liter ... Iodine is key to the production of hormones called thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Thyroid tests can assess these hormone levels.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of levothyroxine replacement therapy on biomarkers of oxidative stress (OS) and systemic inflammation in patients with hypothyroidism.

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(9):474-475. J.V. Hennessey is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA. Disclosure: The ...

Few rappers have attracted as much controversy and media attention as 50 Cent over the last two decades. From his breakout album “Get Rich or Die Tryin'” to his recent business ventures ...

However, I have not been able to find any evidence in the scientific literature that St John's Wort cannot be taken alongside thyroxine. This makes perfect sense when you consider that thyroxine ...

Although the Dow Jones EuroStoxx 50 was only introduced in February 1998, its prices were calculated retroactively back to the year 1986. (read more) The EuroStoxx 50 consists of the shares of the ...