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World Thyroid Day 2025 patient video
To celebrate World Thyroid Day 2025, our patient-led nonprofit is sharing the documentary “Bye Bye Butterfly” by Canadian thyroid patient, filmmaker, and Thyroid Patients Canada board member, Kristine Thelle. Below the video, read Kristine’s story about making the video. Please share the video to spread awareness! My story By Kristine Thelle The reason I got…
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New Website Theme and Vision Page
I’d like to announce the update our website’s overall theme (layout and navigation) and share the contents of our new “Vision” page within this post. We have a new static Home page with new content at our domain https://thyroidpatients.ca. That page now summarizes what it means to “optimize our therapy” — it means that we…
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5 steps to individually-optimized thyroid therapy
Patients should not have to cross their fingers, wait, and hope for change. The hopes of hypo- and hyperthyroid patients focus on attaining individually-optimized treatment. Their hopes, wishes, and requests are not unreasonable. Effective treatment ought to alleviate symptoms and improve health outcomes. Relative changes in thyroid hormone doses have a measurable effect on certain…
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Thyroid disease news broadcast, Omni TV Italian Edition, Canada
Canada’s Omni TV Italian Edition (Rogers Digital Media) broadcast a short piece about thyroid disease on May 26th, 2022. It was originally intended for broadcast on World Thyroid Day, May 25, 2022. It includes segments of interviews: Lauri Martin, volunteer, the Thyroid Foundation of Canada, Tania Sona Smith, president of Thyroid Patients Canada, Prof. Constantin…
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Petition update 01: Testimonials, and our petition in context
A few days ago, on March 25, we launched a public petition on a social media site and posted the research-based rationale on our website titled “Petition: Include thyroid disease in Canada’s chronic diseases list.” At the time of posting, only 5 days later, we already have: 272 Supporters 108 Shares If this rate keeps up,…