Measurements of circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH) can be highly variable depending upon the assay used, but the standardization of blood sample handling might help to reduce this variability. To ...

Renal Stone Removal Helps Some Patients With Recurrent UTIs In a study, intact parathyroid hormone levels fell by nearly 10% over 6 months in hemodialysis patients who received intensive treatment for ...

In patients who underwent total thyroidectomy, parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels less than 10.10 pg/mL measured 6 hours after surgery helped accurately identify those at risk of developing transient ...

A new study jointly led by the School of Clinical Medicine at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has found that surgical removal of the diseased parathyroid ...

A pair of clinical guidelines on hypo- and hyperparathyroidism, respectively, had a coming-out party at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research's (ASBMR) annual meeting on Sunday, allowing ...

Strict management of secondary hyperparathyroidism may be necessary to improve prognosis in patients on dialysis who have coronary artery disease requiring percutaneous coronary intervention. High ...

Symptom distress, quality of life and challenges of illness according to race and income in women with metastatic breast cancer ...

Your parathyroid glands are four tiny glands located at the four corners of your thyroid gland. They are about the size of a pea and produce hormones to regulate the calcium levels in your blood and ...