Despite guidelines addressing overdetection, no significant declines are seen; emphasis on active surveillance approaches is ...

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued Guidelines for the competency-based postgraduate training programme for MCh ...

What do you know about the endocrine system? In school, we learned that hormones and the glands that produce them comprise ...

Optical measurements through the skin are challenging because they usually represent averages across the various layers of skin that are illuminated. A study in Nature Metabolism uses a depth ...

WARSAW — Parkview Kosciusko Hospital (PKH) and the Parkview Center for Healthy Living invite area residents in need of lab testing to sign up for Check-Up Day at the hospital ...

The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the throat due to its appearance. This particular gland is ...

This post was updated Jan. 31 at 12:28 a.m. Dr. Stephanie Smooke Praw, the interim clinical chief of UCLA Health’s Division ...

In doing so, the immune system creates thyroglobulin antibodies. A TgAb test checks the level of these antibodies in a person’s blood. Learn more about the thyroid gland. The TgAb test checks ...

Racing heart, fevered brow, and worried mind? Your condition could be more serious than anxiety, and it could be time to get your thyroid checked. The thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped organ in the ...

How symptoms present could depend on which type of thyroid disorder you have. Hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid gland, occurs when the body produces too little thyroid hormone. There are ...

Eight papers over the last 3 years in Frontiers of Endocrinology have been collected and summarized in this Editorial to heighten collective awareness of the impact of toxic environmental elements, ...

Out of all the glands in the endocrine system, thyroid gland has one of the most important roles as it determines metabolism. It also determines energy levels, and works with other hormones. Dr Sanjay ...