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Coming soon: Jan. 28, 2019 petition reading in the House of Commons
The government tells us this about the process of our petition: Verification “On December 25th at 3:13 pm EDT the petition will close for signatures. Then the Clerk of Petition’s office will verify to make sure that there are 500 valid signatures. They will then send our office a printed sheet with a certification page…
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Thyroid petition closes with 5,681 signatures
Well done, thyroid warriors and caring citizens! https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1819 This is a strong number, considering our challenges. Of course we wish we could have had a larger number. But this is a fledgling campaign group led by a small handful of patients. We started in July, launched a petition in September, and only had 4 months…
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1965: Thyroid therapy of Christmas past
Quotes from McAninch & Bianco’s history of therapy for hypothyroidism: 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980994/ “In 1965, approximately 4 of every 5 prescriptions for thyroid hormone were for natural thyroid preparations” “Physicians hesitated to use L-thyroxine monotherapy over concern that it could result in a relative T3 deficiency”
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VIDEO: What’s wrong with therapy for hypothyroidism?
On December 17, I decided to purchase “Doodly” video creation software that was being advertised on Facebook, and I made this 10-minute educational video. It is meant to raise an appropriate sense of alarm at the problems with thyroid therapy and to offer some possible solutions. Clicking the title image will take you to YouTube to…
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Cute puppies get thyroid petition signatures
During our 2018 Canadian Thyroid Patients’ petition, we were frustrated by the low rate of e-signatures as the petition entered its final month of December. We looked with envy at the statistics of other House of Commons petitions and discovered that some of the more successful ones were about preventing cruelty to animals. In fact,…