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 ...

Experts discuss key challenges in hypothyroidism management, including diagnostic thresholds and appropriate use of ...

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 ...

Thyroid Function Tests (TFTs) are among the most commonly requested laboratory investigations; they help clinicians assess the thyroid status of patients and manage patients' treatment. Therefore, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers created thyroid function reference ranges adjusted for age, sex and racial-ethnic background. Using ...

Thyroid blood tests help figure out how well your thyroid gland is working. TSH helps the thyroid gland know when to make more thyroid hormones. Free T4 is the type of hormone that becomes active when ...

A radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) tests the function of your thyroid gland, which helps regulate your metabolism. It works by measuring how much radioactive iodine is absorbed by the thyroid gland, ...