Combination thyroid hormone therapies treat hypothyroidism as well as levothyroxine

Treatment of hypothyroidism, which results from an underactive thyroid gland, should be individualized and consideration should be given to alternatives to the first-line therapy, including desiccated thyroid extract and combination therapy to replace the body’s two main thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Results of their new randomized clinical study are being presented at ENDO 2021, the Endocrine Society’s […]

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Terry White Chemists Clomipramine

NOTICE: This Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) is intended for persons living in Australia. TERRY WHITE CHEMISTS CLOMIPRAMINE Contains the active ingredient, clomipramine (as clomipramine hydrochloride) Consumer Medicine Information What is in this leaflet Read this leaflet carefully before taking your medicine This leaflet answers some common questions about clomipramine. It does not contain all the available information.It does not take […]

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Metopirone

NOTICE: This Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) is intended for persons living in Australia. METOPIRONE® metyrapone Consumer Medicine Information What is in this leaflet This leaflet answers some common questions about Metopirone. It does not contain all the available information. It does not take the place of talking to your doctor or pharmacist. The information in this leaflet was last updated […]

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Terry White Chemists Simvastatin

NOTICE: This Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) is intended for persons living in Australia. TERRY WHITE CHEMISTS SIMVASTATIN TABLETS Simvastatin Consumer Medicine Information What is in this leaflet This leaflet answers some common questions about simvastatin. It does not contain all the available information. It does not take the place of talking to your doctor or pharmacist. All medicines have risks […]

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Duromine

NOTICE: This Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) is intended for persons living in Australia. DUROMINE™ (dure-o-mean) Phentermine (fen-ter-mean) Consumer Medicine Information What is in this leaflet This leaflet answers some common questions about Duromine. It does not contain all the available information. It does not take the place of talking to your doctor or pharmacist. If you need any more information […]

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Genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics shed light on autoimmune thyroid disease

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, and their collaborators from the Icelandic healthcare system, University of Iceland and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, have published a study in Nature comparing over 30,000 patients with autoimmune thyroid disease from Iceland and U.K. with 725,000 controls. Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is the most common autoimmune disease and is highly heritable. […]

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Watch: How thyroid can affect your chances of getting pregnant

"Thyroid is a very important metabolic hormone in our body and it is very deeply intertwined with its effects on reproduction. It controls the basal metabolic rate and influences the ovarian function." About one in 10 Indian adults are known to suffer from thyroid disorders, namely hypothyroidism. According to a 2016 study, about 13.13 per cent of pregnant women had […]

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Thyroid hormone helped our ancestors survive but left us susceptible

Although most victims survive the 735,000 heart attacks that occur annually in the U.S., their heart tissue is often irreparably damaged—unlike many other cells in the body, once injured, heart cells cannot regenerate. According to a new UC San Francisco study, the issue may date back to our earliest mammalian ancestors, which may have lost the ability to regenerate heart […]

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