Research Guides: Health Sciences Library Virtual Displays: January: Thyroid Awareness Month

January: Thyroid Awareness Month

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January is National Thyroid Awareness Month.

The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of the neck. Although relatively small, the thyroid plays a huge role in the body, influencing the function of many important organs, including the heart, brain, liver, kidneys, and skin.

Links/Resources

American Thyroid Association
The American Thyroid Association is a professional organization of over 1700 medical specialists devoted to thyroid biology and to the prevention and treatment of thyroid disease through excellence in research, clinical care, education, and public health
Thyroid Diseases
Your thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in your neck, just above your collarbone. It is one of your endocrine glands, which make hormones. Thyroid hormones control the rate of many activities in your body.
Thyroid Disease: Causes, Symptoms, Risk Factors, Testing & Treatment
Your thyroid creates and produces hormones that play a role in many different systems throughout your body. When your thyroid makes either too much or too little of these important hormones, it’s called a thyroid disease.
Hypothyroidism (Underactive Thyroid)
Hypothyroidism, also called underactive thyroid, is when the thyroid gland doesn’t make enough thyroid hormones to meet your body’s needs.

Physical Books

Endocrine Replacement Therapy in Clinical Practice by A. Wayne Meikle (Editor)
Call Number: RM286 .E53 2003
ISBN: 1588291952
Publication Date: 2003-04-24
Endocrine Replacement Therapy in Clinical Practice, an update of Hormone Replacement Therapy published by Humana Press in 1999, aims to assist the endocrinologist, gynecologist, pediatrician, urologist, general surgeon, neurologist, neurosurgeon, psychiatrist, generalist, and trainee in management of their patients with hormonal deficiencies or altered hormonal synthesis or responses.
Werner and Ingbar's the Thyroid by Lewis E. Braverman; David Cooper
Call Number: RC655 .W39 2013
ISBN: 9781451120639
Publication Date: 2012-10-16
Werner & Ingbar's The Thyroid: A Fundamental and Clinical Text, 10th Edition has been extensively revised and streamlined to deliver the most comprehensive coverage of the thyroid including anatomy, development, biochemistry, physiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of all thyroid disorders. Entirely new chapters on the surgical management of thyroid cancer, thyroid disruptors, and thyroid hormone analogs are in this edition.
100 Questions and Answers about Thyroid Disorders by Warner M. Burch
Call Number: RC655 .B868 2009
ISBN: 9780763755492
Publication Date: 2008-07-17
EMPOWER YOURSELF! Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient, or are a friend or relative of someone suffering from a thyroid disorder, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Thyroid Disorders gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
Thyroid Disease by Emanuel O. Brams
Call Number: RC655 .B69 2005
ISBN: 1588295346
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
Thyroid Disease: A Case-Based and Practical Guide for Primary Care, by Dr. Emanuel Brams, is a supremely readable cased-based approach to understanding the myriad of disorders that encompass thyroid disease. Using cases derived from his busy practice, Dr. Brams gives us the history and physical examination details of each case, along with test results.
The Complete Thyroid Book, Second Edition by Kenneth Ain; M. Sara Rosenthal
Call Number: RC655 .A36 2011
ISBN: 9780071743488
Publication Date: 2010-09-09
The only book you need to understand and treat your thyroid condition Combining the expertise of two pioneers in the field--world-renowned thyroid specialist Kenneth Ain, M.D., and bestselling thyroid author and bioethicist M. Sara Rosenthal, Ph.D.--The Complete Thyroid Book provides all the essential information on the diagnosis, options, and treatment of thyroid disease.
Thyroid Hormones by Francis S. Kuehn; Mauris P. Lozada
Call Number: QP572.T5 T566 2009
ISBN: 9781607410805
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
The thyroid is one of the largest endocrine glands in the body. The thyroid controls how quickly the body burns energy, makes proteins, and how sensitive the body should be to other hormones. It participates in these processes by producing thyroid hormones, principally thyroxine and triiodothyronine. These hormones regulate the rate of metabolism and affect the growth and rate of function of many other systems in the body. The thyroid also produces the hormone calcitonin, which plays a role in calcium homeostasis. As discussed in this book, both excess and deficiency of thyroxine can cause disorders.
Clinical Management of Thyroid Disease by Fredric E. Wondisford (Editor); Sally Radovick (Editor)
Call Number: RC655 .C63 2009
ISBN: 9781416047452
Publication Date: 2009-06-16
Clinical Management of Thyroid Disease is an exciting new book edited by Fredric Wondisford, MD-developer of the revolutionary new drug, Thyrotropin-and Sally Radovick, MD, with contributions from experts in the field. It fulfills the niche of a succinct, clinical resource to help you translate research into practice. This full-color volume offers valuable information on thyroid cancer and non-cancerous lesions, the effect of drugs on thyroid function, genetic disorders, and more in an accessible, easy-to-read consistent format.
Thyroid Gland Development and Function by G. Van Vliet (Editor); M. Polak (Editor); P. -e. Mullis (Contribution by)
Call Number: RC655 .T4844 2007
ISBN: 9783805582964
Publication Date: 2007-08-16
As is the case in all fields of medicine, developmental endocrinology is now being studied at the molecular level. In this volume world-class researchers review the advances of the past decade in the study of normal and abnormal organogenesis of the thyroid gland and of the ontogeny of its function. They describe human thyroid development and its defects with the help of genetic studies in mouse models.

E-books

Thyroid Disease by Mahmoud F. Sakr
ISBN: 9783030487744
Publication Date: 2020-07-28
This volume presents and analyses the ongoing arguments, controversies, challenges and debates on thyroid disease with a view to clarifying some uncertainties, and to making suggestions that will help resolve others. Issues such as thyroid disease during pregnancy, Hashimoto's disease, Hurthle cell lesions, solitary thyroid nodules, retrosternal goiter, thyroid cancer, recurrent thyroid disease, thyroidectomy techniques, post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia, and thyroid auto-transplantation are thoroughly explored.
Thyroid Hormone by Gerald Litwack (Series edited by)
ISBN: 0128141166
Publication Date: 2018-01-19
Thyroid hormone, Volume 106, the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series first published in 1943 provides up-to-date information on crystal structures and basic structural studies on neurotrophins and their receptors, neurotrophin functions and the biological actions of neurotrophins related to clinical conditions and disease. This new release focuses on timely topics, including the Nuclear Import and Export of the Thyroid Hormone Receptor, the Thyroid hormone and the white matter of the central nervous system: from development to repair.
Thyroid Nodules by Hossein Gharib (Editor)
ISBN: 9783319594736
Publication Date: 2017-09-08
Utilizing the most current evidence, this practical book is the first publication of its kind to focus exclusively on the clinical and laboratory evaluation and therapy of thyroid nodules, including advances in evaluation and controversies in management.
Thyroid Disorders by Syed Khalid Imam (Editor); Shamim I. Ahmad (Editor)
ISBN: 3319258699
Publication Date: 2016-04-07
This book provides comprehensive knowledge about thyroid gland and highlights the recent trends in the management of thyroid dysfunctions.
Thyroid Hormone Disruption and Neurodevelopment by Noriyuki Koibuchi (Editor); Paul M. Yen (Editor)
ISBN: 1493937359
Publication Date: 2016-11-13
Thyroid hormone plays an important role in development and functional maintenance in the central nervous system. Deficiency of thyroid hormone during fetal and early postnatal life induces abnormal development known as cretinism in humans.
Thyroid Disorders by Gilbert H. Daniels; Colin M. Dayan
ISBN: 9781905832187
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Abnormalities of thyroid function rival diabetes mellitus in terms of prevalence and can affect any system in the body. In the UK and North America it is estimated that palpable thyroid nodules are present in 1 in 20 of the population, and in the UK alone 20,000 tests are carried out each year in clinical chemistry laboratories. Thus, all doctors can expect to encounter thyroid disease in one form or another.

Videos

Anatomy and Physiology: The Endocrine System. Other Endocrine Glands And Tissues
This instructional video, from the Anatomy and Physiology series produced by MedCom, Inc., is about the endocrine system and the hormones produced by the endocrine system.
The Endocrine System: Thyroid Gland
This instructional video, from the Anatomy and Physiology series produced by MedCom, Inc., is about the thyroid gland and thyroid hormones.
Thyroid Cancer Increase
New studies show that thyroid cancer has more than tripled over the last four decades, especially among young and middle aged women. Doctors are researching this alarming trend, and how more advanced screening can help catch these cancers.

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