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Radioiodine Therapy to Treat Thyroid Cancer
Whether due to improved detection or unknown environmental factors, the incidence of thyroid cancer is on the rise. People are twice as susceptible to this cancer today as they were in 1990. The Ameri...
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Automatic Funding Cuts Imminent for Health Organizations
Endocrine Society members who receive research grants from the federal government or care for Medicare patients face uncertainty in the near future regarding their funding due to an impending deficit ...Communication Is Key to Good Mentoring
Dr. Steven Anderson, professor of pathology and vice chair for research in the Department of Pathology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, is a long-standing member of The Endocrine...Harnessing the Human Microbiome
Your body is not your own. It’s also the walking, talking home of tens of trillions of bacteria, viruses, mites, and fungi, which collectively outnumber your human cells by at least 10 to 1. They he...New Diagnostic Test Promises Huge Reduction in Thyroid Surgeries
‘Longer term followup of these patients will be important in regard to how many ultimately went to surgery irrespective of the GEC result,’ Wartofsky said.Assessing the RISK of Thyroid Cancer after Fukushima Crisis
In the year and a half since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, residents near the site have become increasingly concerned abo...
