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Developing infographics for thyroid testing
A common type of infographic shared on thyroid patient online support groups is an image with text that provides a comprehensive list of thyroid tests. Many of these thyroid-test-list infographics are in circulation. They reappear over and over again as patients keep libraries of favorite infographics to share with other patients. They go viral from…
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Review: Hoang’s 2013 study of LT4 and desiccated thyroid
In this review, I outline the strengths and weaknesses of Hoang et al’s clinical trial of levothyroxine (LT4) and desiccated thyroid extract (here called DTE, also known as NDT, natural desiccated thyroid).
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Featuring our Thyroid Support Group moderators
In Thyroid Patients Canada, our growing organization features two Facebook groups. Learn more about our two groups at our new set of Group pages before asking to join. In today’s post, I’d like to talk about the qualifications and diversity of our team of group moderators. One team of peer patient leaders currently moderates both…
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Thyroid peer support: Reasoning carefully
This post provides a tutorial for thyroid patients who offer peer advice, educate each other, and analyze their own and each other’s health data. How can we engage in “evidence-based” reasoning to avoid leading each other astray? Our Thyroid Patients Canada peer-led private support group, recently launched in April 2020, is built on three basic…
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Thyroid peer support: Sharing wisely and seeking evidence
We recently began a new support group on Facebook called “Thyroid Patients Canada Support.” It’s a private, patients-only group, with international members, peer-led by thyroid patients. As a patient, if you’d like to join, you must answer 2 questions and permit us to view your Facebook profile (make it temporarily public). In this post, I’d…