Thyroid Images: Total of 66 images to include: 1.Thyroid, normal, in situ, gross 2.Thyroid, normal, medium power microscopic 3.Thyroid, normal, high power microscopic et al to #66

"Every day millions of Americans take a small pill to compensate for a lack of thyroid hormone in their bloodstream. The drug of choice for the treatment of this and other thyroid disorders is synthetic levothyroxine sodium. The American Druggist listed two brand-name preparations as the 3rd and 51st most prescribed drugs in the United States during 1996, accounting for over 36,000,000 prescriptions of synthetic levothyroxine last year."

"Some thyroid patients in the U.S. who do not take levothyroxine sodium (the generic name for Synthroid, Levothroid, Levoxyl, Euthyrox) are instead prescribed either Armour Thyroid or Thyrolar, two drugs produced by the same manufacturer, Forest Pharmaceuticals."

"There’s been some concern and confusion about Armour Thyroid, because Dr. Andrew Weil, in his newsletter "Self Healing," said he preferred to prescribe Thyrolar instead of Armour for thyroid problems because Armour presents a danger of getting Mad Cow disease."

"The February 11, 1999 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports on the results of research that found that "treatment with thyroxine plus triiodothyronine improved the quality of life for most [hypothyroid] patients."

"According to a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study reported on February, 10 1999, about 43 percent of women and 31 percent of men suffer sexual inadequacy for one reason or another. The reasons cited included low desire, performance anxiety, premature ejaculation and/or pain during intercourse. Interestingly, this is thought to actually underestimate the real level of sexual dysfunction in the U.S."

"Many hypothyroid patients struggle with an inability to lose weight. At first, if you'd gained weight before your thyroid problem is diagnosed, you were probably told you'd be able to lose it more easily -- or perhaps you were even told you'd lose all the extra weight -- once you started on your thyroid hormone replacement."

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