Abnormalities of the thyroid gland, particularly hypothyroidism in pregnant women could not be taken lightly. Besides the worst excesses such as death, hypothyroidism which did not treated promptly may jeopardize the future health of the fetus at the same time. One form of abnormal thyroid gland (a gland located in the ...

Pregnant women who use antithyroid drug should be careful because it can affect to low birthweight risk in their baby, including small for gestational age babies. This warning based on case control study of 2830 hyperthyroidism mothers and 14,150 age-matched control mothers. According to the findings, the comparison between women with hyperthyroidism ...

Since voiding cystourethrography procedure for children with first febrile urinary tract infection (UTI) can leads to traumatic for some children and their parents, therefore, reducing the numbers of those procedure would be great value. Due to this, the researchers compares the results of voiding cystourethrography, dimercapto-succinic acid (DMSA) renal scintigraphy, and ...

The complications of performed ureteroscopic procedures has been increased related to upper urinary tract calculi. The researchers said that one of most common reason of this, because increasing number of ureteroscopic procedures. According senior author of the study that published as January 2011 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Manoj Monga ...

The fact that young infants with fever and urinary tract infections (UTIs) for the of serious complications or bacteremia was about a third, the researchers suggest that these infants do not need always get hospitalization for several days. In other words, they may be managed at home. According to the researchers, ...

A new observational of epidemiologic study showed that people who had coronary heart disease with low testosterone levels had 2-fold mortality risk than normal level of testosterone. This findings based on the examination of testosterone levels on survival of 930 consecutive men with coronary disease referred for angiography for a 2-year ...

As August issue in the Obstetrics & Gynecology, the investigators reported that compared with pregnant women without mild thyroid dysfunction, those with mild thyroid dysfunction had 3-fold risk of placental abruption. This findings based on analyzed among 17,298 serum samples from pregnant women with apparently normal thyroids function and found antithyroid ...

Bladder cancer is common cancer in the urinary tracts both male and female, and health problem related to reproductive male system. In the U.S, most type of common bladder cancer occurs is Transitional Cell Carcinoma (TCC) which the cancer occur entire urinary tract, including ureter, renal pelvis, urethra and bladder itself. In ...

Disease with malignant tumor or cancer is one of contributor for the risk of all-cause mortality. About 13% or 7.6 million people in the world in 2007 deaths due to have this cancer. For people with Thyroid cancer are less ...

About 30%, the children and teenagers in US are overweight and obese. Obese and overweight children are more likely to remain obese as adolescents and become overweight or obese adults. About 80 per cent of obese adolescents will become obese adults. New research from Italy said that obese children may be damaging ...

New research reported in the Journal of Endocrinology in August 26th has documented that hair follicles are direct impacted to the thyroid hormones of the body, T3 and T4. That means whatever our hair condition is dependent with thyroid hormones level. Based on the research showed, that T4 up-regulates the proliferation ...

Thyroid hormone regulates everything from your metabolism to your digestion. Because it usually slowly creeps up on you, it is very common not to realize that there has been a change in your energy level, memory, menstrual periods and skin texture. Menstrual periods can vary from woman to ...

It is a known fact that hypothyroidism is a condition that can be overcome. All you really need is information on what it is, its mode of operation, its causes and what to do in the eventuality that it occurs? Now, it is possible that you might have been to see ...

In the United States and other countries, many people experience with inability of their thyroid glands produces hormone that contain iodine. This people are known as hypothyroidism sufferers. Thyroid glands in an endocrine glands that have two lobes and a responsibility to produce adequate amount of thyroxine (t4) for the body's needs. This ...

The thyroid gland which is located at the frontal end of the neck below the structure known as "Adam’s apple" is a vital part of the body. It is responsible for the production and secretion of an hormone called Thyroxine. He absence of ...