Lemon juice stimulation of salivary-gland flow increases the absorbed doses of ¹³¹I to the salivary glands after the administration of ¹³¹I
Clinical Thyroidology
Radioiodine therapy with ¹³¹I is taken up by target tissues, including tumors and thyroid remnants, but is also taken up by the submandibular and parotid salivary glands. As a result, high levels of ¹³¹I therapy may be associated with salivary-gland damage, leading to long-term side effects, including sialadenitis, which occurs in about 30 percent of patients, and xerostomia, which has an incidence of about 10 to 20 percent.More

Child IQ scores similar for hypothyroid screening during pregnancy vs. no screening
Endocrine Today
Preliminary results of the anticipated CATS study did not show a benefit of screening for hypothyroidism in pregnancy on the intellectual development of children. However, uncertainty remains about the definitive benefits of hypothyroid screening during pregnancy, and further analyses and data are needed, according to John H. Lazarus, PhD, who presented the results at the International Thyroid Congress.More

1 in 20 older people have hypothroidism
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About one in twenty older people have hypothyroidism, a level lower than previously thought, a major study from North South Wales has found. Rates of hypothyroidism were three times higher in women than men, and obesity was the other common factor associated with hypothyroidism, a five year prospective study which was part of the Blue Mountains Eye study found. In almost 1800 people over 55 who had thyroid function assessed, the overall five-year incidence of thyroid dysfunction was 4.7 percent.More

Pazopanib shows promise for advanced thyroid cancer in Phase II trials
EmaxHealth
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 37,000 Americans are diagnosed with thyroid cancer each year, and the incidence has doubled over the past ten years. About 5 percent of patients develop and aggressive life-threatening form of the disease with few treatment options. In a Phase II clinical trial, researchers from the Mayo Clinic have found that a drug called Pazopanib helps to shrink tumors for as much as one year.More

Lower thyroid activity linked to longevity
Doctor NDTV
A less active thyroid may mean more years added to your life. Earlier studies have suggested that middle-aged children of long-lived siblings have lower thyroid function compared to controls from the general population. To assess whether in the generation of the long-lived siblings low thyroid function was related to enhance survival of the parents of the siblings as well, Dutch researchers studied 859 siblings from 421 long-lived families. Their average age of 93 years old far exceeded current U.S. life expectancy of about 78 years.More

Wound infiltration at the end of total thyroidectomy reduces postoperative stress, pain
Doctor's Guide
Local anesthetic wound infiltration, performed at the end of total thyroidectomy, appears to reduce postoperative stress, pain, and analgesia requirements, compared with preincisional infiltration, researchers said at the 14th International Thyroid Congress. Ioannis Tsamis, M.D., Department of Endocrine Surgery, Hippokration Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, and colleagues conducted a prospective, double-blinded study of 150 patients undergoing total thyroidectomy by a single surgeon during 2009.More