AWARENESS SUPPORT ADVOCACY for Western Australians
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WA Links
SolarisCare Foundation - Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Cancer Support Centre, Integrative
Complementary Therapies Information Service
UK Links
www.thyroiduk.org Campaigning for and providing Information and Support
to those with Thyroid or related disease It has a great site search facility
US Web Sites
www.thyroid.about.com Information about conventional & alternative treatments by Mary
Shomon
Canadian Web Sites
www.thyroid.ca Thyroid Foundation of Canada. In 2010 they celebrated 30 years of
Awareness, Support and Research.
Books
Running on Empty by Robyn Koumourou.
The Thyroid Solution by Ridha Arem, M.D.
The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Survive it by Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, MB BS
LRCP MRCS
Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy by Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, MB BS LRCP
MRCS
The Thyroid Hormone Breakthrough by Mary Shomon
Living Well with Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You… that You Need
To Know by Mary Shomon
What Your Doctor may NOT Tell You About Hypothyroidism by Ken Blanchard,M.D., Ph.D
Hormones. Health and Happiness by Dr Steven Hotze, M.D.
Thyroid Power: Ten Steps to Total Health by Dr Richard L. Shames, M.D. and Karilee H.
Shames, R.N., Ph.D
Hormones. Health and Happiness by Dr Steven Hotze, M.D.
Thyroid Power: Ten Steps to Total Health by Dr Richard L. Shames, M.D. and Karilee H.
Shames, R.N., Ph.D
Articles
Laurence M. Demers, Ph.D., F.A.C.B. and Carole A. Spencer Ph.D., F.A.C.B. “Laboratory
Support for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Thyroid Disease”. 2002 The National
Academy of Clinical Biochemistry.
Bjoro T et al. “Prevalence of Thyroid Disease, Thyroid Dysfunction and Thyroid
Peroxidase in a Large, unselected Population. The Health Study of Nord-Trondelag
(HUNT)”. European Journal of Endocrinology EJE 2000;143 639-647
MacKenzie EJ and Mortimer RH. “Thyroid Nodules and Thyroid Cancer”. Medical Journal of
Australia MJA 2004; 180: 242-247
McDermott MT and Ridgway E. “Subclinical Hypothyroidism Is Mild Thyroid Failure and
Should be Treated”. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism JCEM 2001; 86(10):
4585-4590
Robertas Bunevičius, M.D., Ph.D., Gintautas Kažanavičius, M.D., Ph.D., Rimas Žalinkevičius, M.
D., and Arthur J. Prange, Jr., M.D. “Effects of Thyroxine as Compared with Thyroxine
plus Triiodothyronine in Patients with Hypothyroidism”. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology
and Metabolism NEJM 1999; 340:424-429
Libbe Kooistra, PhD, Susan Crawford, MSc, Anneloes L. van Baar, PhD, Evelien P. Brouwers,
PhD, Victor J. Pop, MD, PhD. “Neonatal Effects of Maternal Hypothyroxinemia During
Early Pregnancy”. Pediatrics 2006, Vol. 117 No 1. 161-167
The Endocrine Society’s Clinical Guidelines. “Management of Thyroid Dysfunction during
Pregnancy and Postpartum”.
Resources specific to Osteoporosis controversy
Bassett JH, O’Shea P et al. “Thyroid Hormone Excess rather than TSH Deficiency
induces Osteoporosis in Hyperthyroidism”. Molecular Endocrinology 2007, doi:10.1210
/me.2007-0033
Leb G, Warnkross H, Obermayer-Pietsch B. “Thyroid Hormone Excess and
Osteoporosis”. Medical University Clinic, Karl Franzens University, Graz Austria. Acta Med
Austriaca. 1994;21(2):65-7
Quan ML, Pasieka Jl, Rorstad O. “Bone Mineral Density in Well-differentiated Thyroid
Cancer Patients treated with suppressive Thyroxine: A systematic overview of the
literature”. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2002 Jan;79(1):62-9; discussion 69-70
Baldini M, Gallazzi M, Orsatti A, Fossati S, Leonardi P, Cantalamessa L. “Treatment of
benign nodular goitre with mildly suppressive doses of L-thyroxine: effects on bone
mineral density and on nodule size”. Journal of Internal Medicine. 2002 May;251(5): 407-14

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