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News|Articles|October 19, 2026 In patients 45+ with papillary thyroid cancer, men with dual BRAF V600E and TERT promoter mutations face sharply higher mortality, reshaping risk stratification. Male sex was associated with higher papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)-specific mortality among patients aged 45 years or older whose tumors harbored concurrent BRAF V600E and TERT promoter (TERTp) mutations, according to an international multicenter cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.1Among patients aged 45 years or older with both mutations, male sex was associated with a 3-fold higher risk of PTC-specific mortality after adjustment for clinicopathologic factors (adjusted HR, 3.07; 95% CI, 1.35-6.97; P =.007). This group also had the highest observed mortality rate, at 37.07 deaths per 1000 person-years, highlighting the prognostic relevance of evaluating these biological factors together. Study Design and Patient CharacteristicsThe retrospective cohort study included 4746 patients with PTC treated at 15 medical centers across 10 countries between 1979 and 2023. The median patient age was 48 years (IQR, 37-59), and 3612 patients (76.1%) were women.

Background: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is a common gynaecological complaint, and thyroid dysfunction may contribute to menstrual abnormalities. This study evaluated the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among women presenting with AUB and its association with clinical characteristics. Methods: This observational study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bengaluru, India, from January 2020 to June 2021. It included 100 women with AUB. Demographic and clinical data, such as age, parity, body mass index (BMI), type and duration of AUB, thyroid status, family history, and goitre and thyroid-related symptoms, were documented. Thyroid function tests were used to group the participants into the following categories: euthyroid, subclinical, hypothyroid, and hyperthyroid. Results: The mean age was 34.85 ± 8.29 years, and the mean BMI was 24.74 ± 3.36 kg/m². Thyroid dysfunction was found to be present in 20% of the participants. Heavy menstrual bleeding was the most common AUB pattern (40%), which was not significantly associated with thyroid status (p = 0.398). Significant associations were observed between thyroid st

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For the study, published in JAMA Network Open, the researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 studies that included data from close to 16 million study participants on three continents. In a meta-analysis of observational studies, they found that ADHD is linked to higher rates of suicide and injury deaths, as well as a moderate increase in natural-cause mortality. But they found some evidence that this mortality risk is lower among people who take ADHD medication.

An endocrinologist warns psychiatrists against overreading peripheral thyroid hormones and flags kelp and T3 microdosing as underrecognized risks. In this episode of “The Psych Consult: Second Opinion,” endocrinologist Caroline Messer, MD, joined consultation-liaison psychiatrist Claire Brandon, MD, to discuss where thyroid disease and psychiatric illness overlap, and where clinicians most often go wrong. Reading the LabsMesser advised psychiatrists to rely on thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) alone in most cases, reserving free T4 and T3 for suspected central disease. Stress, heparin, and binding-protein abnormalities can all distort peripheral levels. She noted that SSRIs can lower free T4 by causing a mild central hypothyroidism. Symptoms are a poor guide on their own. Messer pointed to the Colorado Thyroid Disease Prevalence Study, which evaluated more than 25,000 health fair attendees, as evidence of how common hypothyroid-type complaints are in the general population. Age further complicates interpretation: TSH distribution shifts upward over the lifespan, and most older adults with TSH above 4.5 mIU/L fall within an age-appropriate range.

Children and adolescents who received antibiotics had 1.5-times-higher odds of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) by age 24 than those who had not, Swedish researchers reported today at the annual United European Gastroenterology (UEG) conference. The findings are from an analysis of 2,853 participants enrolled in the BAMSE study, which began in Stockholm in 1994 and was originally established to study environmental and nutritional factors involved in the development of allergies and other chronic conditions. For this study, researchers at the University of Gothenburg reviewed antibiotic drug prescription data starting in 2005, when the participants were aged 9 to 11 years, until IBS was assessed at age 24, tracking whether they had received antibiotics, the number of prescriptions received, and which antibiotic classes had been prescribed. IBS is a common condition that can cause cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, or constipation. Antibiotic use has been hypothesized as a potential trigger because of its impact on the gut microbiome, but research linking antibiotics and IBS has been mixed.