Two athyreotic patients and five patients on suppressive doses of L-thyroxine (L-T 4) were studied with intermittent oral therapy given as a single weekly dose. Thyroid tests were compared during ...

New research shows that it may be safe for patients taking thyroxine replacement to have low but not suppressed thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. The research shows for the first time that it ...

SOME of the manifestations of acute intermittent porphyria are suggestive of thyrotoxicosis. These include emotional lability, tachycardia and muscular weakness, and such findings have on occasion led ...

Thyroxine (Thyrox (100 mcg)) is a thyroid hormone, prescribed for hypothyroidism, and thyroid cancer. The information provided on this page is intended to serve as a comprehensive resource and should ...

A new study shows that the delivery of drugs into the brain, and especially into glial cells, can be enhanced with prodrugs that temporarily incorporate thyroxine or a thyroxine-like molecule. A new ...

A 41-year-old woman has been stable on the same dose of l-thyroxine (0.1 mg) for years, but her thyroid-stimulating hormone recently rose significantly. It turns out she has been donating plasma twice ...

In patients with stage 2 to 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD) and subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH), thyroid hormone replacement therapy (THRT) with L-thyroxine appeared to dampen the rate of decline in ...

Bile acids expelled from the gallbladder into the intestinal lumen emulsify dietary lipids to aid digestion, then form micelles with the products of lipid digestion to facilitate absorption. Synthesis ...