Prevalence rates
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Thyroid diagnosis & therapy in Native Canadian populations: Too many unanswered questions
How have thyroid diseases and our Canadian thyroid diagnosis & treatment policies affected Native American people in Canada? This is an unanswered question. I can’t find any published research about it yet. It’s just the perfect piece of “thyroid ignorance” to contemplate today in Canada. Today, Sept. 30, as we Canadians know, is a relatively…
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Thyroid disease in Ukrainians’ lives
When we think of the many challenges Ukrainians are facing with courage today, we should remember that they lived through Chernobyl, and that they are a people living with thyroid diseases. Partly because of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown disaster in 1986, thyroid disease and lifelong thyroid therapy has become an important part of Ukrainians’ past…