Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The treatment of hyperthyroidism during pregnancy with both methimazole ...

April 21, 2010 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a boxed warning to the drug label for propylthiouracil about reports of severe liver injury and acute liver failure, in some cases ...

Propylthiouracil therapy should be discontinued in children in favor of alternative approaches, say US researchers, after a systematic and comparative evaluation of the adverse events associated with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pregnant women with thyroid dysfunction exposed to methimazole therapy during the first trimester are more ...

Propylthiouracil can also be used to help reduce symptoms of an overactive thyroid before having surgery to remove the thyroid or radioactive iodine therapy. Propylthiouracil may also be used for ...

SAN DIEGO — New findings out of Japan add to increasing evidence that the use of methimazole to treat the hyperthyroidism of Graves' disease in early pregnancy significantly increases the risk for ...

SINCE the introduction of antithyroid-drug therapy for the treatment of hyperthyroidism by Astwood 1 in 1943 a variety of therapeutic programs and specific drugs have been proposed. However, in the ...

Medically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MD Key Takeaways Take levothyroxine on an empty stomach at the same time every ...