Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, the most common cause of goiter is Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, says Dr. Barlow. This is an autoimmune disorder ...

An impression has spread through this country that goiter, particularly in children, is a frequent sequence of communicable disease. To check up on so general an impression was Surgeon General Hugh S.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Dr Omolo says that when the thyroid gland is functioning properly, it maintains the right ...

A goiter refers to an enlarged thyroid gland. Sometimes, a person can have a goiter that has multiple nodules or bumps on it, which is known as a multinodular goiter. A toxic goiter is one that makes ...

MARINE, DAVID (20 Sept. 1880-26 Nov. 1976), whose research on thyroid disorders led to salt iodization to prevent goiter, was born in Whitleysburg, Md., and attended Western Maryland College and Johns ...

IT is well recognized that thyroid tissue may be ectopically situated in various locations in the neck. Lingual thyroid tissue, thyroglossal-duct remnants and aberrant lateral cervical thyroid have ...

Nontoxic thyroid goiter is a common disorder characterized by a diffuse or nodular enlargement of the thyroid gland. It is caused by chronic stimulation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), and is ...

At the Congress of American Physicians & Surgeons in Washington last fortnight and at the American Association for the Study of Goiter in Memphis last week, staff men from the great medical clinics ...