Clinical Thyroidology® for the Public
EDITOR’S COMMENTS
Happy New Year and welcome to another issue of Clinical Thyroidology for the Public! In this journal, we will bring to you the most up-to-date, cutting edge thyroid research. We also provide even faster updates of late-breaking thyroid news through Twitter at @thyroidfriends and on Facebook. Our goal is to provide patients with the tools to be the most informed thyroid patient in the waiting room. Also check out our friends in the Alliance for Thyroid Patient Education. The Alliance member groups consist of: the American Thyroid Association, Bite Me Cancer, the Graves’ Disease and Thyroid Foundation, the Light of Life Foundation, MCT8 – AHDS Foundation, ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Thyroid Cancer Canada, Thyroid Cancer Alliance and Thyroid Federation International.
We invite all of you to join our Friends of the ATA community. It is for you that the American Thyroid Association (ATA) is dedicated to carrying out our mission of providing reliable thyroid information and resources, clinical practice guidelines for thyroid detection and treatments, resources for connecting you with other patients affected by thyroid conditions, and cutting edge thyroid research as we search for better diagnoses and treatment outcomes for thyroid disease and thyroid cancer. We thank all of the Friends of the ATA who support our mission and work throughout the year to support us. We invite you to help keep the ATA mission strong by choosing to make a donation that suits you — it takes just one moment to give online at: www.thyroid.org/donate and all donations are put to good work. The ATA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and your gift is tax deductible.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented upheaval in our daily lives and presented extremely difficult challenges to our healthcare system. We at the American Thyroid Association would like to make sure that you all have access to most accurate, reliable, fact-based and updated information.
January is Thyroid Awareness Month.
In this issue, the studies ask the following questions:
- Can thyroid hormone levels predict outcomes in patient hospitalized with severe COVID infection?
- Are either desiccated thyroid extract or combination therapy with L-T4 and L-T3 better than L-T4 alone in treating hypothyroidism?
- What are the effects of biotin on thyroid levels?
- Is the Bethesda system for classifying thyroid biopsies accurate in children with thyroid nodules?
- Is core needle biopsy better than fine needle biopsy in evaluating thyroid nodules?
- Does extrathyroidal extension in thyroid cancer increase the risk of cancer recurrence?
We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Let us know what you want to see in this publication. I hope you find these summaries interesting and informative.
— Alan P. Farwell, MD
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