About one-quarter of adults aged at least 60 years using levothyroxine were able to stop therapy and maintain a thyroid-stimulating hormone level of less than 10 mIU/L at 1 year, researchers reported ...
About 1 in 4 overall and two thirds of those taking doses of 50 µg/d or lower were able to come off the treatment while maintaining adequate thyroid function for 1 year.
New research questions the benefits for some older adults of screening colonoscopies and the drug levothyroxine (Synthroid) ...