thyroid

Autism four times likelier when mother’s thyroid is weakened (0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5)

Pregnant women who don’t make nearly enough thyroid hormone are nearly 4 times likelier to produce autistic children than healthy women, report scientists from the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute and Erasmus Medical Centre in an upcoming Annals of Neurology. The ... Read More »

BPA linked to thyroid hormone changes (0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5)

Bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogen-like compound that has drawn increased scrutiny in recent years, has been linked to changes in thyroid hormone levels in pregnant women and newborn boys, according to a new study by researchers at the University of ... Read More »