Prioritizing Thryoid Issues … with Diabetes
With January being Thyroid Awareness Month, I thought this would be a perfect time to share some tidbits on how this has been a huge issue for me personally.I've touched on my struggles before in living with long-standing hypothyroidism, which bas... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - January 14, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
Prioritizing Thryoid Issues … with Diabetes
< image src="http://www.healthline.com/hlcmsresource/images/00_Diabetes-Mine/mike-thumb.png"/ > < p > With January being Thyroid Awareness Month, I thought this would be a perfect time to share some tidbits on how this has been a huge issue for me personally.I've touched on my struggles before in living with long-standing hypothyroidism, which bas... < /p > (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - January 14, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
Prioritizing Thryoid Issues… with Diabetes
With January being Thyroid Awareness Month, I thought this would be a perfect time to share some tidbits on how this has been a huge issue for me personally.I've touched on my struggles before in living with long-standing hypothyroidism, which bas... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - January 14, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
I’m all about that bass, no treble
Months ago I visited the doctor to investigate a weird little symptom that came up. A small section of hair had fallen out on the left side of my head. It wasn’t much, about the size of a coin. Complete hair everywhere else but that one spot. No biggie. I hid it easily with my other hair. Turned out after some blood work that I had/have hypothyroidism, which means my thyroid gland is under producing its hormones (thyroid hormones control metabolism/how food converts to energy in different parts of the body). One of its symptoms can sometimes show up as hair loss.
My hair is all grown back now, and I have been taking ...
Source: Cancer, life, and me - December 31, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Chris Tags: General Source Type: blogs
I ’ m all about that bass, no treble
Months ago I visited the doctor to investigate a weird little symptom that came up. A small section of hair had fallen out on the left side of my head. It wasn’t much, about the size of a coin. Complete hair everywhere else but that one spot. No biggie. I hid it easily with my other hair. Turned out after some blood work that I had/have hypothyroidism, which means my thyroid gland is under producing its hormones (thyroid hormones control metabolism/how food converts to energy in different parts of the body). One of its symptoms can sometimes show up as hair loss.
My hair is all grown back now, and I have been taking ...
Source: Cancer, life, and me - December 31, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Chris Tags: General Source Type: blogs
A Review of the Endocrinology of Aging
Here is an open access review of what is known of changes in the endocrine system that occur with aging. This is many steps removed from the low-level cellular and molecular damage that causes degenerative aging. It is a good example of a body-wide set of linkages between organs and signals and processes in which every change or failure in one component part will cause corresponding reactions in all of the other components.
A sizable field of medicine continues to focus on these changes, trying to find ways to shift levels of hormone signals to be closer to measures taken in youth. In past decades this has produced some l...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 22, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Amiodarone and thyroid dysfunction
Brief Review
Amiodarone is one of the most widely used anti arrhythmic drug. It is well known that amiodarone can induce both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism due to the iodine content of the drug. 200 milligrams of amiodarone daily would deliver twenty to forty times the usual daily iodine intake. Amiodarone reduces 5-deiodinase activity and thereby the monodeiodination of T4 to T3. There is decreased generation of T3 and reduced clearance of rT3 (reverse T3), which accumulates. Destructive thyroiditis is due to the direct toxic effect of amiodarone and its metabolite on the thyroid follicular cells.1
It has been menti...
Source: Cardiophile MD - December 21, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Customizing Communication, or Which One I Sent
It’s been a fascinating week or so listening to everyone weigh in on which response they thought I sent to my patient (also here.) The general consensus, unsurprisingly, was that the first was far too cheeky — not to mention insulting — to effectively convey the necessary information. The second, of course, was the one I send every day, day in and day out. Just this once, circumstances conspired to allow me to send the first.
Let me explain.
I’d like to begin by quoting myself:
I find it amusing to intentionally adopt a far more curmudgeonly attitude here than I would ever dream of displaying in...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - December 5, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs
Which One Did I Send?
Middle-aged lady, twenty pounds overweight.
Doing everything I can, doctor. Everything imaginable. Diet: I eat practically nothing. Exercise: all the time! Weight Watchers doesn’t work. Jenny Craig, South Beach, the Zone; I’ve tried it all. Nothing works. Have to lose weight. Have to lose weight.
Yadda yadda yadda.
Oh look: a few years back I diagnosed you as hypothyroid and gave you some Synthroid. Are you taking it?
Nah; I stopped that. I just didn’t want to take it.
Hm. Send some blood work. Low and behold: TSH is 7. That’s high, and it means her thyroid is underactive, which is probably a big pa...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - November 23, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, September 24, 2014
From MedPage Today:
Key Updates for Angina, NSTEMI. The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology released an update of their guidelines for unstable angina and non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI).
Metformin and TSH: Is There a Link? Metformin seemed to further diminish levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in diabetic patients who were already being treated for hypothyroidism.
Cafeteria Face-Off: Google Vs. Hospitals. Rajasree Pai, MD, an endocrinologist in private practice in Eureka, Calif., contrasts health-promotion efforts at Google with those of healthcare institutions....
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 24, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Diabetes Endocrinology Heart Neurology Source Type: blogs
The Celiac Connection
Last Saturday, a T1 friend and I drove to TCOYD in DC. I've been under the impression that one either had celiac(or not) for quite some time now. Since I've tested negative several times for antibodies, I've assumed I don't have any problems. But at Friends For Life last year, they were doing HLA genotyping(along with antibody testing) which I participated in. Last month, that test came back positive which means I have the genetic susceptibility for the disease.(as does my offspring) I had J tested(amid the eye rolling of the pediatrician),and he is currently antibody negative.(to get the genetic test done I'm pretty sure ...
Source: The D-Log Cabin - June 10, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: HVS Source Type: blogs
My Life is Worth It
My wife, my daughter, and I were exhibitors at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) last weekend. At the invitation of ASCO, insurance companies and doctors were trying to invent a framework for limiting patients' access to the newest and most expensive cancer treatments, thereby providing those treatments only for those patients whose lives are judged worthy of them.
In the booth, I'm on the left
Unfortunately, we patients have been left out of that discussion altogether, so we were in a booth, making the point that patients should most definitely have a voice in any such discussions...
Source: Myeloma Hope - June 3, 2014 Category: Cancer Source Type: blogs
Pediatric screening tests: You can’t have it both ways
In pediatrics, almost all of our patients are healthy. We’ve got some doozies of special-needs kids, but by-and-large your ordinary pediatric patient is doing well, and does not need extensive testing or elaborate procedures to ensure good health.
Still, we do run across some occasional problems. Some children have poor vision, or hearing problems, or kidney disease, or hypothyroidism. Or autism, or Tay-Sachs Disease, or a penny up their nose. A whole lot of what we do in our checkups is easy, cheap, and quick tests to screen for these and many other problems.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 28, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Roy Benaroch, MD Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
