Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, the most common cause of goiter is Hashimoto's thyroiditis, says Dr. Barlow. This is an autoimmune disorder ...

Is your healthy diet working against your thyroid gland? Many plant foods we think of as healthy contain risky molecules that can disrupt hormonal and metabolic balance. The main job of the thyroid ...

An impression has spread through this country that goiter, particularly in children, is a frequent sequence of communicable disease. To check up on so general an impression was Surgeon General Hugh S.

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RECENT studies on sporadic goitrous cretinism 1–5 have called attention to the interesting paradox of hypothyroidism associated with a hyperplastic nodular goiter. These studies have demonstrated an ...

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland that sits in the front of the neck. It produces hormones that are essential for heart rate, digestion, mood, and other functions crucial to human health.

This case report illustrates an exceptional clinical situation in which a pregnant woman abruptly presented, at 5 months' gestation, with major swelling of the thyroid gland that led to respiratory ...

IN THE therapeutic attack on malignant tumors in general, the accumulated experience of generations has established as virtually axiomatic certain well defined principles. The first is the folly of ...

Shepherds in Christmas Nativity scenes that were painted, carved or sculpted hundreds of years ago sometimes have throats with large, abnormal growths. These are realistic depictions of goiter, an ...

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