Thyroid Disease News
November 20, 2024
Top Headlines
Sep. 13, 2024 — Babies born to pregnant women with obesity are more likely to develop heart problems and diabetes as adults due to fetal damage caused by the high-fat, high-energy diet of their ...
Aug. 23, 2024 — Obesity-related cancer rates in China were rising at an alarming 3.6% every year between 2007 and 2021 while non-obesity-related cancers remained stable, according to the first comprehensive study. The increase is particularly pronounced among young ...
Aug. 6, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new compound, ZTA-261, that binds to thyroid hormone receptor beta (THR ). THR plays an important role in the regulation of lipid metabolism, which affects lipid levels in the blood. Mice administered the drug showed ...
June 20, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a new cause of why people who lack a specific blood group are genetically predisposed to be overweight or ...
Latest Headlines
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Aug. 22, 2024 — Research in mice sheds light on how thyroid hormone alters wiring in the brain. Findings reveal that thyroid hormone syncs up the brain and body to drive exploratory behavior. Researchers say their ...
Nov. 22, 2023 — Anti-rheumatic drugs used for rheumatoid arthritis might prevent the development of autoimmune thyroid disease, according to a new observational ...
Oct. 24, 2023 — Researchers have discovered a link between certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and an increased risk for thyroid ...
June 15, 2023 — Exposure to dioxins can negatively impact thyroid function, according to a study presented Thursday at ENDO 2023, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Chicago, ...
July 14, 2022 — To date most research on obesity has focused on studying those with a high body mass index (BMI), but a research group is now taking a different ...
Apr. 7, 2022 — Researchers have captured images of multiple radionuclides in mice using astronomy ...
Mar. 16, 2022 — New research has linked phthalates, commonly called the 'everywhere chemical,' to higher incidence of specific childhood ...
Dec. 9, 2021 — The prevalence of obesity has doubled in Australia in the last two decades. As a result, overweight and obesity will likely be associated with 10,000 thyroid cancers in the next ...
Earlier Headlines
Sep. 24, 2024 — Cancer incidence trends in 2021 largely returned to what they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). However, there was ...
Jan. 13, 2024 — A newly developed PET imaging agent has been found to be effective in identifying medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in preclinical and clinical studies. The results of the studies indicate that the PET ...
Aug. 18, 2022 — In single pollutant models and within a 20-year period, 10 out of 29 reviewed pesticides were associated with thyroid cancer, including several of the most widely used ones in the U.S. These included ...
Aug. 12, 2022 — The targeted therapy pralsetinib was well-tolerated and demonstrated high response rates in patients with RET gene fusions, regardless of tumor ...
July 6, 2022 — Older people with hypothyroidism, also called underactive thyroid, may be at increased risk of developing dementia, according to a new study. The risk of developing dementia was even higher for ...
June 28, 2022 — The current system of chemical risk assessment is inadequate and underestimates levels of flame retardants and other pollutants needed to cause harmful health effects, according to a recent ...
May 20, 2022 — Two recent discoveries may help lead to new ways to treat patients with Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (AHDS), a brain development disorder that causes severe intellectual disability and problems with ...
Feb. 8, 2022 — Toxic goiter affects the brain more than was previously known, a new study shows, and involves volume changes occurring in central parts of the brain. These findings are described as a key advance ...
Jan. 6, 2022 — Thyroid hormone levels during pregnancy may predict preschool boys' emotional and behavioral problems, according to a new ...