New research questions the benefits for some older adults of screening colonoscopies and the drug levothyroxine (Synthroid) ...

Take levothyroxine on an empty stomach at the same time every day. Avoid food and drink, including coffee, for at least an hour after taking levothyroxine. Switching brands or generics of ...

A hypothyroid patient’s annual lab work shows low thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels (0.20 mU/L). Her free triiodothyronine and free thyroxine levels are both in the middle of the normal range.

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.

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 ...

Under physician supervision, 26% of older adults successfully stopped levothyroxine while maintaining stable thyrotropin and free thyroxine levels for a year. Discontinuation was more common in ...