Thyroid-cancer test reveals recurrence early
...worked fairly well, except that some people became miserable after they stopped taking their synthetic thyroid hormone and became hypothyroid," Kloos says. "Some patients claimed that they'd rather die of their disease than go through that regularly." Withdrawing from thyroid hormone can cause fatigue, weight...Measures can help save frontal sinuses
...gestion and drip don't respond to medical therapy, miserable patients may opt for surgery that effectively obliterates their frontal sinuses. Surgeons crack open the skull, open the frontal sinuses, remove the lining and fill the empty cavity with abdominal fat. "A better solution is to perform functional endo...New drug lets thyroid cancer patients avoid nasty side effects during treatment
...s need to stop thyroid replacement therapy and the miserable side effects that go with it. The study, led by Paul Ladenson, M.D., director of the Division of Endocrinology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Furio Pacini at the University of Siena in Italy, was reported in the December onli......may have thought others of his generation would be miserable in old age. And now that he's 61, he might look back and think he himself was happier back then. But the opposite is likely to be true: Older people "mis-remember" how happy they were as youths, just as youths "mis-predict" how happy (or unhappy) the...Identification of role for proteins in children's muscle disease could open up new treatment options
...he children also often become uncharacteristically miserable and fractious and they may complain of tummy pain. Heat shock proteins (HSP) are a group of proteins whose expression is increased when the cells are exposed to elevated temperatures. Production of high levels of heat shock proteins can also be trig...Sawing the ZZZZZs: getting old needn't keep you awake, Saint Louis University geriatricians say
...ant to address sleep problems, which can make life miserable and frequently can be solved, Dr. Gammack says. She suggests patients with sleep problems keep a diary for a week or two that includes tracking usual wake-up and bedtimes, timing and size of meals, amount of exercise, medications and descriptions ...New allergy vaccine provides long-lasting hay fever relief after just 6 weeks of shots
...n largely responsible for making allergy sufferers miserable throughout the entire ragweed season. Someone allergic to ragweed has inherited the ability to make too much IgE antibody when exposed to inhaled allergens. Additionally, the vaccine may activate specialized immune cells known as "dendritic cells" ...