Clinical guidelines are supposed to promote patient health and encourage evidence-based medicine and physician discernment, but thyroid guidelines aim to restrict testing, restrict medication, and prevent any change in therapy practices. Indeed, the enforcement of restrictions appears to be the… Read More ›
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British endocrinologists agree with Canadian thyroid patient
PRESS RELEASE: “Society for Endocrinology & British Thyroid Association issue statement against new treatment recommendations for subclinical hypothyroidism” On May 24th, my “rapid response letter” was published on the British Medical Journal website. I was responding to newly published recommendations:… Read More ›
Letter on diagnosis published on British Medical Journal website
Today, the British Medical Journal’s website published my “rapid response” letter: How can truly hypothyroid patients be accurately diagnosed within the enlarged subclinical category? Link to full text: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2006/rr-6 It is a response to the new guidelines for subclinical hypothyroidism:… Read More ›
Pharmaceutical prejudice can lead to a thyroid therapy dystopia
I really DON’T want to be gloomy all the time. I DO believe there is hope for positive change in thyroid therapy today. But now and then we have to consider “what is the worst that could happen?” I want… Read More ›
Shame on the UK for torturing thyroid patients who need T3
The UK is torturing its most vulnerable hypothyroid patients who need T3 in therapy. The medical profession is throwing away more than a century of safe, effective clinical use of T3 all over the globe. Nobody is caring enough to… Read More ›