Books and Resources
AWARENESS
SUPPORT
ADVOCACY
for Western Australians
WA Links
SolarisCare Foundation - Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Cancer Support Centre, Integrative
Complementary Therapies Information Service

Australian Links
www.coeliac.org.au -  CONTACT : 1300 458 836
Coeliac Australia's vision is to enhance the quality of life of people requiring a gluten free diet
for life and to encourage and support research towards a cure or other ethical forms of
treatment for coeliac disease.
Read A CASE HISTORY - The Relationship of Thyroid and Coeliac Disease. Extract kindly
provided by Coeliac Australia   

www.endocrinesurgery.net.au - Melbourne based, Mr Bill Flemming FRACS FRCS has a
comprehensive and up to date guide to endocrine surgery. Select the THYROID link

UK Links
www.thyroiduk.org Campaigning for and providing Information and Support
to those with Thyroid or related disease It has a great site search facility

US Web Sites
www.thyroid.about.com Information about conventional & alternative treatments by Mary
Shomon

ABC NEWS Interview with Dr Oz talking about Thyroid Disease

Mary Shoman talks about Dr Oz Got it Right About Thyroid Disease on ABC Good Morning
America Show

Canadian Web Sites
www.thyroid.ca Thyroid Foundation of Canada. In 2010 they celebrated 30 years of Awareness,
Support and Research.

Books
Running on Empty by Robyn Koumourou.

Your Thyroid Problems Solved by Dr Sandra Cabot

The Thyroid Solution by  Ridha Arem, M.D.

The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Survive it by Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, MB BS
LRCP MRCS

Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy by Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, MB BS LRCP
MRCS

The Thyroid Hormone Breakthrough by Mary Shomon

Living Well with Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You… that You Need
To Know by Mary Shomon

What Your Doctor may NOT Tell You About Hypothyroidism by Ken Blanchard,M.D., Ph.D

Hormones. Health and Happiness by Dr Steven Hotze, M.D.

Thyroid Power: Ten Steps to Total Health by Dr Richard L. Shames, M.D. and Karilee H.
Shames, R.N., Ph.D

Hormones. Health and Happiness by Dr Steven Hotze, M.D.


Articles
Laurence M. Demers, Ph.D., F.A.C.B. and Carole A. Spencer Ph.D., F.A.C.B. “Laboratory
Support for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Thyroid Disease”.  2002 The National
Academy of Clinical Biochemistry.

Bjoro T et al. “Prevalence of Thyroid Disease, Thyroid Dysfunction and Thyroid
Peroxidase in a Large, unselected Population. The Health Study of Nord-Trondelag
(HUNT)”. European Journal of Endocrinology  EJE 2000;143 639-647

MacKenzie EJ and Mortimer RH. “Thyroid Nodules and Thyroid Cancer”. Medical Journal of
Australia MJA 2004; 180: 242-247

McDermott MT and Ridgway E. “Subclinical Hypothyroidism Is Mild Thyroid Failure and
Should be Treated”. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism JCEM 2001; 86(10):
4585-4590

Robertas Bunevičius, M.D., Ph.D., Gintautas Kažanavičius, M.D., Ph.D., Rimas Žalinkevičius, M.
D., and Arthur J. Prange, Jr., M.D. “Effects of Thyroxine as Compared with Thyroxine plus
Triiodothyronine in Patients with Hypothyroidism”. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and
Metabolism NEJM 1999; 340:424-429

Libbe Kooistra, PhD, Susan Crawford, MSc,  Anneloes L. van Baar, PhD, Evelien P. Brouwers,
PhD, Victor J. Pop, MD, PhD.  “Neonatal Effects of Maternal Hypothyroxinemia During
Early Pregnancy”. Pediatrics 2006, Vol. 117 No 1. 161-167

The Endocrine Society’s Clinical Guidelines. “Management of Thyroid Dysfunction during
Pregnancy and Postpartum”.


Resources specific to Osteoporosis controversy

Bassett JH, O’Shea P et al. “Thyroid Hormone Excess rather than TSH Deficiency
induces Osteoporosis in Hyperthyroidism”. Molecular Endocrinology 2007, doi:10.1210
/me.2007-0033

Leb G, Warnkross H, Obermayer-Pietsch B. “Thyroid Hormone Excess and Osteoporosis”.
Medical University Clinic, Karl Franzens University, Graz Austria. Acta Med Austriaca. 1994;21
(2):65-7

Quan ML, Pasieka Jl, Rorstad O. “Bone Mineral Density in Well-differentiated Thyroid
Cancer Patients treated with suppressive Thyroxine: A systematic overview of the
literature”. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2002 Jan;79(1):62-9; discussion 69-70

Baldini M, Gallazzi M, Orsatti A, Fossati S, Leonardi P, Cantalamessa L. “Treatment of
benign nodular goitre with mildly suppressive doses of L-thyroxine: effects on bone
mineral density and on nodule size”. Journal of Internal Medicine. 2002 May;251(5): 407-14

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