Below are the most current Public Health Statements from the ATA. To the right you can find older Statements in the Archives. You can also locate Statements by Category.
For many years the American Thyroid Association has recommended close monitoring of all patients treated with thyroid hormone (1). The reason for this recommendation is that many patients are either o...
Read more Click here to download the Statement: thy.2010.0403...
Read more The American Thyroid Association (ATA), The Endocrine Society (TES), the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM),the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)
Radioactive iodine (I-131) has ...
Read more Click here to download this Statement: Liraglutide_statement_for_members_mar_2010...
Read more Click here to download this Statement: Liraglutide_statement_for_members_mar_2010...
Read more Direct Access Testing (DAT) for thyroid function is now offered by some reference laboratories. Frequently ordered patient-initiated tests include common thyroid function and antibodies tests, such as...
Read more December 13, 2006
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just published data on urinary perchlorate, nitrate, and thiocyanate levels that they have measured from a nationwide healt...
Read more To read the full statement click here: ATAIodineRec...
Read more Updated July 17. 2006
The Laboratory Services Committee of the American Thyroid Association alerts physicians that the Nichols Advantage Thyroglobulin Assay which has been used by many major laborat...
Read more Click here to download this Statement: Consensus Statement #2
...
Read more
Updated May 24, 2005
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) has developed the following response to requests from patients and physicians for information about "Wilson's syndrome". The ATA Public ...
Read more ATA Public Health Committee Statement
April 25, 2005
As delineated in the ATA’s prior statement there has been an increasing concern over the possibility that excess levels of perchlorate may have ...
Read more American Thyroid Association (ATA) Statement on Early Maternal Thyroidal Insufficiency: Recognition, Clinical Management and Research Directions
April 26, 2004
For over one hundred years, it has be...
Read more ATA Public Health Committee Statement
February 3, 2004
An increasing concern has developed over the possibility that excess levels of perchlorate may have found their way into drinking water source...
Read more
The ATA would like to highlight the findings from two recent publications on subclinical thyroid disease. A complete response to these articles is being formulated by the three societies that initia...
Read more
December 12, 2002
Authorities at government buildings and transportation centers are using portable radiation detectors to catch terrorists who have been handling radioactive bomb-making materials...
Read more
Updated September 28, 2002
On July 12, 2001, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) clarified the status of levothyroxine sodium (thyroxine) product...
Read more
July 24, 2002
Production of Thyrel®, TRH (protirelin), has been halted as of July 2002. The manufacturer, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, says that it is modifying the manufacturing process for Thyrel® in...
Read more February 11, 2002
On January 17, 2002, a presentation at the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine meeting in New Orleans created a wave of concern that women with thyroid disease were at higher than n...
Read more
This statement is supported by the Executive Committee of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society
American Thyroid Association, The Endocrine So...
Read more
June 19, 2000
The American Thyroid Association has learned that ipodate (Oragrafin) is no longer available. The compound had been distributed by Bracco Diagnostics.
Iopanoic acid (Telepaque) is a...
Read more
February 26, 2000
The American Thyroid Association and The Thyroid Society for Education and Research have jointly developed and endorsed the following response to the recent warning issued by the...
Read more
