Masanobu Yamada is Associate Professor, and Masatomo Mori is Professor and Chairman, in the Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan.

Causes of Thyroid Cancer- Differentiated thyroid cancers – also known as papillary and follicular thyroid cancers – don’t play by the same rules as other cancers. Although in advanced forms of the ...

The thyroid is the engine of your body, says Dr. Jennifer Mammen, an endocrinologist and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. While your fitness won't affect how well that engine is or ...

Thyroid nodules are solid or fluid-filled lumps that form within your thyroid, a small gland located at the base of your neck, just above your breastbone. The great majority of thyroid nodules aren’t ...

What does your thyroid do? Your thyroid gland influences almost all of the metabolic processes in your body through the hormones it produces. Your thyroid gland is part of your endocrine system. When ...

Hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid, is a condition in which the thyroid gland produces less thyroid hormone. As thyroid hormone regulates the metabolic rate of the body, an underactive thyroid ...

Hyperthyroidism is an overactive thyroid gland that produces too much thyroid hormone, while hypothyroidism is an underactive thyroid gland that produces too little thyroid hormone. Although both ...

What does your thyroid do? Your thyroid gland influences almost all of the metabolic processes in your body through the hormones it produces. Your thyroid gland is part of your endocrine system. When ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2008;4(12):683-694. Traumatic brain injury and aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage might cause lesions in the hypothalamic-pituitary region, including hemorrhage, ...