Commercially processed salts can taste bitter: Since WW II, iodine has been added to prevent thyroid-related diseases (such as cretinism).
Tokyo residents were warned on Wednesday not to give tap water to babies less than a year old because levels of radioactive iodine - which can cause thyroid cancer - are twice the recommended safe level in some areas of the city.
An experimental Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) pill shrank thyroid tumors, another hard-to-treat cancer.
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located in the front of the neck just below the Adam's apple.
Ingestion of the short-lived isotope iodine-131, with its well-known risk of thyroid cancer when absorbed in the thyroid glands of children and young people, was the only major radiation-related health effect of the Chernobyl accident on the public.
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Thyroid nodules may also be cysts, fluid-filled cavities, or swellings caused by thyroid inflammation.
This means the "under-active" thyroid gland in her neck does not produce enough of the thyroxine hormone.
The presenter was given the all-clear for thyroid cancer in January last year.
An experimental Pfizer pill shrank thyroid tumors, another hard-to-treat cancer.
For instance, Synthroid, a thyroid drug, was the third-most prescribed drug in the U.S. in 1999.
The 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown did not result in any measure-able uptick in thyroid cancer cases.
The cancer had not spread beyond the thyroid, and, in eighty-six minutes, we removed the fleshy, butterfly-shaped organ, carefully detaching it from the trachea and from the nerves to the vocal cords.
But he admits that the intense discussion about the rodent thyroid cancers took Novo Nordisk by surprise--as it did Wall Street.
The government knew at least as early as the mid-1940s that potassium iodide was protective against I-131 absorption by the thyroid.
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Well, to that end, Radiation Shield Technologies has developed a full line of radiation-defeating garments (the thyroid collar being our favorite).
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And, almost all of the radioactive material released was iodine-131, associated with thyroid cancer, which is one of the slowest growing and least deadly cancers.
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While elevated iodine has been most widely reported, its 8-day half life is very short, and iodine tablets offer good protection from the primary long-term health risk: thyroid cancer.
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It hopes to get the drug approved by promising to carefully study the thyroid issue in a big 9, 000-person safety trial that will also look at cardiovascular safety.
Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases.
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The good news was that four of them are in sound working order, a shock given that I don't even know where they are, and thus haven't watered them lately. (In Western medicine-speak, Bramham detected imbalances in my thyroid, thymus and adrenal glands.) To address such afflictions a client would be prescribed two spa treatments and two hours of exercise daily, all custom-tailored, plus a nutritional consultation.
Thomsen says new data from recently completed two-year human studies of liraglutide show no hints of thyroid problems in roughly 1, 500 patients.
The 39-year-old has been receiving radioactive iodine treatment since having a cyst and her thyroid gland removed in 2009.
Vandetanib, the drug approved today, failed in non-small cell lung cancer and in bladder cancer before it proved effective in medullary thyroid cancer.
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Still others were diagnosed with long-term health conditions such as Crohn's disease, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and thyroid disorders.
Boys are more likely to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, for instance, while girls are more likely to develop thyroid carcinoma and melanoma.
Former reporter Susan Yara took the Biophysical250 test after years of low-level but persistent digestive discomfort that was never accurately diagnosed, despite numerous tests for thyroid disorders and irritable bowel syndrome.
That the region was rapidly evacuated and everyone told not to eat anything from that area (for two months as I-131 decayed away), was all that was needed to reduce any threat of thyroid effects and all other cancers from most of the affected areas.
Three-quarters have involved my specialty, endocrine surgery surgery for endocrine organs such as the thyroid, the parathyroid, and the adrenal glands.
The FDA-approved prescribing label for Bydureon has a prominent warning stating that the drug caused certain kinds of thyroid tumors in rats at clinically relevant exposures in testing, according to the FDA website.
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