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 ...

Switching between generic levothyroxine products won't make much of a clinical difference, a new study suggested. In a comparative effectiveness research study of 15,829 patients, those who switched ...

Thyroid problems are very common, and millions of people take medication every day to manage them. One of the most widely prescribed medicines for thyroid disease is levothyroxine. In the United ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with mildly elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone levels at birth have normal thyroid function in ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have been diagnosed with thyroid antibodies. What are the long-term effects of these antibodies? The doctor says to start thyroid medication. I have been a vegetarian since 1983 and ...

Thyroid test reports can be confusing, especially when the numbers do not clearly say normal or abnormal and instead fall into a grey area, which is often labelled as borderline. Many people assume it ...

Women with hypothyroidism receiving levothyroxine treatment have similar cardiovascular disease risk as those without thyroid disease, according to data published in Thyroid. In an analysis of 2,647 ...

Subclinical hypothyroidism is a mild form of hypothyroidism. It occurs when only one of two main thyroid levels is elevated. It doesn’t usually cause symptoms, and it’s unclear how or if it affects ...

Levothyroxine, a drug used to treat hypothyroidism, can lead to reduced bone mass and density in older adults with normal thyroid levels, a small cohort study has shown. Researchers from Johns Hopkins ...