helvella - Vade Mecum for Thyroid
The term vade mecum means:
1. A referential book such as a handbook or manual.
2. A useful object, constantly carried on one’s person.
Please don't get put off by the number of pages!
Nor by the fact it is targeted at people interested in thyroid issues. Much of its contents could be of use to many involved in health issues. Things like abbreviations, lists, general reference information, an Appendix of links to many useful websites.
And do keep up to date. I edit it frequently- sometimes trivially, sometimes extensively. If your copy is more than a few weeks old, please download it again.
In particular, it is not intended that you sit and read the document. Just that you download it and know you can look things up.
If there is anything you'd like me to add, let me know.
Current Topics
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Alerts for Medicine Recalls and Warnings
Amino Acids
Anaemia - iron deficiency
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) codes
Antibodies
Anti-Thyroid Therapy
Autoimmune Thyroid Disease (AITD)
Calculators and Convertors
Daily Rhythms of Thyroid Hormones
Deiodinase Enzymes (DIO1, DIO2 and DIO3)
Desiccated Thyroid and Thyroid Glandulars
Desiccated Thyroid Ratios
Dimensions of Capsules
Donating Blood
Elements
Expiry Dates
Famous People with Thyroid Disease
Fine Dose Adjustment
Genetic Polymorphisms
Gluten-Free Status of Medicines (UK)
Graves’ Disease
History of Thyroid Treatment and Medicines
Hydration: Anhydrous vs. Pentahydrate
Human Hormones
Hypodermic Needle Sizes
Iodine Content of Thyroid Hormones
Iron
Levothyroxine Advice
Medicine Classifications
Medicine Documents
NHS Drug Tariffs
NHS England Integrated Care Boards
NHS Scotland Health Boards.
NHS Wales Health Boards
Pathology Handbooks
Patient Records Access
Pharma Contacts
Pharmacies Online
Pharmacy Locations
Prescribing by Brand
Prescribing Levothyroxine by Brand
Prescription Charges
Prescription Latin
Pretibial myxoedema
Ranges and Reference Intervals
Serious Shortage Protocols
Shortages
Test Interference by Biotin
Tests (Summary)
Tests – LabTestsOnline
Thyroglobulin (TG)
Thyroid Binding Proteins
Thyroid Cancer
Thyroid Diseases, Disorders and Syndromes
Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)
Thyroid Hormone(s)
Thyroid Hormone Medicines
Thyroid Hormone Ratios
Thyroid Peroxidase
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
TSH Receptor Antibodies (TRab)
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)
Thyroxine (Levothyroxine, T4)
Units – Grams, Milligrams and Micrograms
Vitamin B6
Vitamins
X-codes
Yellow Card Reports
Appendix A: Other Sources of Information
American Thyroid Association
Australian Family Physician
Australian Thyroid Foundation
B12 Deficiency
British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons
British National Formulary (NICE)
British Thyroid Association
British Thyroid Foundation
Care Quality Commission
Cochrane
DailyMed (FDA)
DEGAM, German College of General Practitioners & Family Physicians
DermNet NZ
DrugBank Online
Drugs@FDA
Elaine Moore
Electronic Medicines Compendium (EMC)
Endotext & Thyroid Disease Manager
Europe PMC
European Medicines Agency
European Thyroid Association
Food and Drug Administration
Genetic and Rare Diseases (GARD) Information Center
Google Scholar
GPNotebook
Haemochromatosis UK
IBS Hypo
Imperial Centre for Endocrinology
Improve Thyroid Treatment (ITT)
Information Commissioner’s Office
Interactive Drug Analysis Profiles (iDAP)
Internet Archive
Internet Archive Scholar
Iron Disorders Institute
JSTOR
Linus Pauling Institute
McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of foods integrated dataset (CoFID)
Medscape
Merck: MSD Manuals: Consumer
Merck: MSD Manuals: Professional
MHRA: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
MHRA Products Database
National Drug Code List (USA)
National Health Service (NHS)
NHS Inform
National Institutes of Health
National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD)
NICE: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NICE: Thyroid disease: assessment and management
Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
OpenPrescribing
Orange Book
Orphanet
Parathyroid.com
Parathyroid UK
Patient
Pernicious Anaemia Society
Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
PubMed
Radiopaedia
Scottish Medicines Consortium
Specialist Pharmacy Service
Statpearls
The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
The James Lind Library
The Pituitary Foundation
The Thyroid Trust
Thyroid Eye Disease charitable trust
Thyroid Federation International
Thyroid Patients Canada
Thyroid UK
Welsh Medicines Information Centre
Your Hormones
helvella's Vade Mecum document is available here:
helvella - Vade Mecum for Thyroid
The term vade mecum means:
1. A referential book such as a handbook or manual.
2. A useful object, constantly carried on one’s person.
The link below takes you to a blog page which includes more information about my vade mecum including links to the document, and QR codes to make it easier to access from phones and similar.
