Researchers have known for decades that different brands of lab machines produce different results. The fix is easy — but not ...

Planning a pregnancy? Don’t skip TSH testing. Dr Gupta explains how even mild thyroid imbalance can affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes.

Original Medicare (parts A and B) and Medicare Advantage (Part C) cover the full cost of a TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) test after meeting your deductible. Medicare Part B generally covers two ...

In most cases a routine thyroid test is ordered by doing a thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) assessment. When TSH levels are low or high, it may indicate an overactive or a sub-functioning thyroid, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Thyroid dysfunction is common among people with diabetes regardless of type, suggesting that biochemical thyroid ...

Thyroid disorders are among the most common yet least understood chronic health conditions affecting women. For Black women ...

Doctors may recommend a biopsy to obtain a sample from a thyroid nodule. Testing the sample in a laboratory can help indicate whether the nodule is cancerous or benign. Though most tend to be benign, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Thyroid nodules are common. Each year, approximately 600,000 U.S. residents with nodules undergo a fine-needle ...

Whether clinicians are accurately diagnosing thyroid disease was at issue for Chinese researchers who demonstrated that adding subgroup differences according to age, sex, or race when testing for ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Steering clinicians toward a cascade approach for thyroid function testing cut unnecessary orders by a monthly average of 15% and concurrent orders by 19% per month, according to ...

“I knew there was something deeper going on but [the doctor] never listened to me or my concerns,” Heather Wallace tells ...