“Primary hypothyroidism is when the thyroid gland is unable to produce enough thyroid hormone, typically due to damage,” says ...

The common symptoms of an underactive thyroid, such as tiredness and a low mood, can go unnoticed as they're frequently ...

While an overactive thyroid is more common in women, male hyperthyroidism does occur and usually requires medications to keep it in check. Graves’ disease is the most common cause of ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, I contracted and ...

Graves’ disease is a chronic autoimmune condition in which the immune system mistakenly launches an attack on the thyroid gland. The damage increases the production of thyroid hormones.

Authorities linked her death to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare but potentially fatal disease spread by infected rodent droppings. Thyroid medication pills prescribed to Arakawa were found ...

A medical expert has explained how Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa could have been saved from the rat disease that took ... head next to a space heater and thyroid medication pills scattered ...

When Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, speculation over what could have been the cause of their deaths was rife. The authorities quickly ...

Thyroid diseases are characterized by hyperfunction (hyperthyroidism), hypofunction (hypothyoidism) or inflammation (thyroiditis) of the thyroid gland or the presence of thyroid nodules ...

There were no other significant natural disease findings. Pills present on scene, or thyroid medication, which were being taken as prescribed and is not currently a concern for a contributory ...

Authorities linked her death to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare but potentially fatal disease spread by infected rodent droppings. Thyroid medication pills prescribed to Arakawa were found ...