The thyroid gland, located at the neck's base, controls metabolism, growth, and development. Its hormones impact nearly every ...

To check the lymph nodes, you have an ultrasound. Ultrasound scans use high frequency sound waves to create a picture of a part of the body. If doctors find any abnormal areas, they can use the ...

Apr. 3, 2025 — While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy ...

Natco Pharma on April 8 said that the launch of its generic version of Roche Pharma's patented drug, Risdiplam, is contingent upon the successful outcome in a patent infringement case. The ...

The lead disease target of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Merida is Graves’ disease, which develops as antibodies produced by the immune system attack the thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped gland ...

You’re likely to get a "diagnostic mammogram” and an ultrasound at your follow-up appointment. The diagnostic mammogram might take longer than your routine screening mammogram did, because the ...

During this procedure, a small needle electrode is inserted into the thyroid nodule using ultrasound guidance. The heat generated at the needle tip destroys the target tissue. Hot nodules produce ...

Introduction: Graves´ disease (GD) is the predominant cause of hyperthyroidism. Treatment options include antithyroid drugs (ATD), surgery, and radioactive iodine ablation (RI). Although thyroid ...

A study presented at ESCMID Global 2025 has demonstrated that an AI-powered lung ultrasound outperforms human experts by 9% in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Twins—smaller at birth ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, takes a look at visible signs of thyroid disease. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible ...

Hypothyroidism, a prevalent condition, often interferes with the thyroid gland’s metabolic regulation function, frequently leading to weight gain. Despite adhering to a healthy diet and ...

If you are a parent, then you probably first laid eyes on your child through an ultrasound procedure—the technology that uses high-frequency sound waves to view soft tissue. It is undeniably one ...