The iodide dye used in heart scans and other medical imaging might damage some people's thyroid glands, which could cause important health problems later on, researchers say. In a new study, they ...

But the diseases occur rarely, are eminently treatable and should not lead patients to put off having scans, experts said. Patients who had signs of thyroid disease were between two and three times as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 73-year-old man was sent for consultation for a hypermetabolic thyroid nodule found on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose ...

Your thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland in the front of your neck. Its main job is to produce thyroid hormones, which help regulate your body's metabolism and control your heart rate, body ...

Dear Dr. Roach: About 35 years ago, a renowned Beverly Hills internist prescribed Armour Thyroid for me. At the time, I was burned out in a highly stressful job and would get bronchitis, usually twice ...

Of the four main types of thyroid cancer, the vast majority are differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Radioiodine (I-131) therapy has been used in the management of patients with DTC since the first ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I'm set to have a CT scan of my lungs with iodine dye. I have hypothyroidism and am on 25 mg of levothyroxine. Should I take the medicine the day of the test? Or should I have the CT ...

A slightly underactive thyroid gland, the low end of normal, may help to explain some infertility of unknown cause, according to findings of a cross-sectional study published online in the Journal of ...

Imaging-detected relapses are observed in a significant proportion of patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) with normal postoperative imaging studies. The aim of this study was to search for ...

Keeping an eye on your thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels is key to catching any signs of thyroid dysfunction early on. That's because an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) or overactive ...