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Wednesday, June 30, 2004But now I know why there's been so much press given to the issue. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists has a public awareness campaign about thyroid disease, which evidently has been a smashing success. Unfortunately, the AACE promotes definitions of thyroid disease that run contrary to all evidence-based definitions. Why would they promote something of such marginal worth so widely ? Could it be because their corporate sponsor for Thyroid Awareness Month is Abbott Laboratories, maker of Synthroid? Or is it the combined influence of many of their corporate sponsors? Adopting the recommendations of the AACE for the screening and treatment of hypothyroidism would increase the numbers of Synthroid users by millions, according to their website. That would be tens of millions of extra dollars a month going to the association's sponsors. Doesn't quite seem kosher, does it? posted by Sydney on 6/30/2004 06:45:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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