Endodoc

Hello again.  I want you to appreciate the fact that so far, I have stuck to my goal of at least one entry a week!  In my last entry, I…

Every week I give lectures to the medical students and resident physicians rotating through the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology.  I try to keep things pretty informal and I usually do…

Recently, I have been contacted by a number of acquaintances, all of whom have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism.  That in and of itself is not so strange; hypothyroidism is acually…

I apologize for not having an endocrinology-based entry for quite a while.  I do appreciate the many nice comments I have received on past entries.  I will try to write…

I haven’t looked in my archives, but I vaguely remember writing something quite a while back about enlargement of the thyroid gland, which is commonly called a goiter (the term…

In my last entry, I discussed a rare form of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) mostly to make a point about the importance of routine medical care in detecting potentially serious medical…

In my last entry, I discussed a bit about the diagnostic process and the importance of first thinking of common disorders and then the rare ones. Here, I will discuss…

In recent posts I have discussed what causes hypothyroidism in children and how to diagnose it but I didn’t really discuss typical signs and symptoms. Newborns: don’t wait for clues…