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Lymph node surgery for papillary thyroid cancer
Clinical Thyroidology for Patients    Share    Share on FacebookTwitterShare on LinkedinE-mail article
Papillary thyroid cancer is the most common form of thyroid cancer and, overall, has a good prognosis. However, up to seven percent of patients with Papillary thyroid cancer die from their cancer within 10 years of diagnosis. Local recurrences are found in five to 20 percent of patients with Papillary thyroid cancer and approximately 60 percent of these recurrences are localized to the lymph nodes of the neck. More

Rituximab and Graves Disease
Clinical Thyroidology    Share    Share on FacebookTwitterShare on LinkedinE-mail article
The medical treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED) continues to be problematic. Glucocorticoid therapy provides acute control of periocular inflammation and long-term or high-dose glucocorticoid therapy is effective but associated with systemic side effects. More



Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are indoor risk
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Concentrations of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) -- found in many everyday products and of concern due to potential health hazards -- are higher indoors than outdoors, according to a new study. But they are equally present, the researchers found, in an urban, low-income community near an oil refinery and in a rural, affluent coastal community without much industry More

Texas chiropractors can't zap fat or treat diabetes, board says
Austin American-Statesman    Share    Share on FacebookTwitterShare on LinkedinE-mail article
Ads touting body sculpting and diabetes or thyroid care are beyond 'scope of practice,' regulators decide in preparing to draft rules. The state board that regulates chiropractors determined recently that it was off limits for those doctors to use lasers to trim body fat in Texas and to treat diabetes or thyroid problems. More

Uncovering Hiroshima in our midst
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It is no doubt a barbaric act on humanity, involving the immediate loss of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, noted the Peace Declaration released on Aug 6. The proclamation further described the bombing victims as being hurled into a "hell" beyond their most terrifying nightmares, together with the many souls that fell victim to unwarranted death. "No one should ever have to suffer such horror."  More

Short hospital stay following neck dissection
Archives of Otolaryngology    Share    Share on FacebookTwitterShare on LinkedinE-mail article
Objectives:  To review the clinical characteristics of patients who had a short hospital stay (<24 hours) following neck dissection, and to assess the incidence and type of complications in this patient group. More

Englebright measure banning BPA signed into law
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A bill banning the sale of certain children's products containing the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), sponsored by Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D, Setauket) and Senator Antoine Thompson (D, Buffalo), was signed into law recently by Governor David Paterson. More
 

 
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