Thyroid Nodule Classification in Ultrasound Images
Thyroid Nodule Classification in Ultrasound Images by Fine-Tuning Deep Convolutional Neural Network Recent research in Saskatchewan With many thyroid nodules being incidentally detected, it is important to identify as many malignant nodules as possible while...
Volunteers Needed to Support Our National Help Line
Volunteers Needed to Support Our National Help Line Volunteers Needed to Support Our National Help Line The Thyroid Foundation of Canada is looking for part-time volunteers to join our team that supports thyroid patients by answering calls from our National Help Line...
Finding someone to talk to…
Finding someone to talk to … We offer help and support to thyroid patients. That’s been one of our goals for many years, probably since the inception of the Thyroid Foundation of Canada. Many times the calls we receive are from thyroid patients who just...
Lupus Clinical Trials
New Technology for Lupus Clinical Trials: Autoimmune thyroid disease is common in lupus. It is believed that about 6% of people with lupus have hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) and about 1% have hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid). Hyperthyroidism can cause...
U.S. Thyroid Medication Recalls
News on U.S. Thyroid Medication Recalls The Thyroid Foundation of Canada wishes to advise thyroid patients we have no indication there is a recall of thyroid medications in Canada. Some patients showed concern re a recent news release of recalls however it relates to...
A solution to long wait times to see medical specialist in Ontario
A solution to long wait times to see medical specialist in Ontario We found an article that appeared in the Ottawa Citizen recently, titled “A made-in-Ottawa solution to get around long wait times to see medical specialists”. A program developed for this purpose is...
Petition
The Thyroid Foundation of Canada has been requested to post a link to a petition being circulated by The Canadian Thyroid Support group re hypothyroidism Should you be interested you may consider sharing the link. ...
Welcome to our New Website
Welcome to our New Website Featuring: new, modern look search facility Just for Members area and more to come! The new redesign now takes advantage of the complete screen area and includes numerous colourful images throughout the site. Structurally, we have separate...
