Professional resources
Latest information from the European Thyroid Association regarding the risk of SARS Co-V2 infection in patients with thyroid disease can be found here
Please click on the links below to access these printed and online medical journals:
European Journal Of Endocrinology
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
Please click on the links below to access these organisations
The American Thyroid Association - www.thyroid.org
The British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons - wwww.baets.org.uk
Endobible - www.endobible.com
The Endocrine Society (USA) - www.endocrine.org
The European Thyroid Association - www.eurothyroid.com
The European Federation of Endocrine Societies - www.ese-hormones.org
The Latin-America Thyroid Association - www.lats.org
PubMed - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.pubmed
The Society for Endocrinology (UK) - www.endocrinology.org
Thyroid Disease Manager (USA) - www.thyroidmanager.org
Patient Resources
Please be careful - unfortunately there are a number of websites with unhelpful and inaccurate information which should be ignored. The links given here are recognised patient support and information websites which are recommended by the BTA - we hope you find these resources helpful
Leaflets on the following subjects can all be accessed via the British Thyroid Foundation website here
- Antithyroid Drug Therapy to treat Hyperthyroidism
- Congenital Hypothyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Pregnancy and Fertility in Thyroid Disorders
- Psychological Symptoms and Thyroid Disorders
- Thyroid Cancer
- Thyroid Disorders and Osteoporosis
- Thyroid Eye Disease
- Thyroid Function Tests
- Thyroid Nodules and swellings
- Thyroid Surgery
- Thyroiditis
- Treatment of an over-active or enlarged thyroid with radioactive iodine
There are a number of fact sheets and patient guides via the Hormone Health Network here
Thyroid Cancer - the third edition (2014) of the thyroid cancer guidelines are available in PDF Format here. This includes sections on:
- The thyroid gland and thyroid cancer - tests and treatment
- Information for patients being investigated for thyroid lumps
- Surgery for thyroid cancer
- Radioactive iodine ablation and therapy
- Medullary thyroid cancer
- Advanced or higher risk differentiated (papillary and follicular) thyroid cancer
- Anaplastic thyroid cancer
Organisations:
- The British Thyroid Foundation - www.btf-thyroid.org
- The Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust - www.tedct.org.uk
- The Butterfly Thyroid Cancer Trust - www.butterfly.org.uk
- The Hormone Health Network - www.hormone.org
- Hypopara UK - www.hypopara.org.uk
- The US National Library of Medicine - www.medlineplus.gov
- Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association - www.thyca.org
- The American Thyroid Association - www.thyroid.org
- The UK Iodine Group - www.ukiodine.org
