Some more papers chasing the T4 rainbow

[diogenes]

These new papers are behind a paywall, but if anyone's interested I've sent the opened documents to Lyn Mynott TUK.

Symptoms in Patients Being Treated for Hypothyroidism: New Data in a Continuing ControversyJennifer S. Mammen and David S. Cooper

Thyroid, Vol. 33, No. 8, August 2023: 887-889.

Thyroid Dysfunction: Hypothyroidism, Thyrotoxicosis, and Thyroid Function TestsInvestigating Levothyroxine Use and Its Association with Thyroid Health in Patients with Hypothyroidism: A Community Pharmacy StudyEls Mehuys, Bruno Lapauw, Guy T'Sjoen, Thierry Christiaens, An De Sutter, Stephane Steurbaut, Inge Van Tongelen, and Koen Boussery

Thyroid, Vol. 33, No. 8, August 2023: 918-926.

Levothyroxine Treatment Adequacy and Formulation Changes in Patients with Hypothyroidism: A Retrospective Study of Real-World Data from the United StatesAntonio C. Bianco , Yanjun Bao, Oscar Antunez Flores, Rachel Halpern, Lisa Le, Sydnie Stackland, and Todd Frieze

Thyroid, Vol. 33, No. 8, August 2023: 940-949.

Thyroid Dysfunction: Hypothyroidism, Thyrotoxicosis, and Thyroid Function TestsHypothyroidism and Somatization: Results from E-Mode Patient Self-Assessment of Thyroid Therapy, a Cross-Sectional, International Online Patient Survey

Petros Perros , Endre Vezekenyi Nagy , Enrico Papini , Christina Maria Van Der Feltz-Cornelis , Anthony Peter Weetman , Harriet Alexandra Hay, Juan Abad-Madroñero, Amy Johanna Tallett, Megan Bilas, Peter Lakwijk, Alan J. Poots, and Laszlo Hegedüs

Thyroid, Vol. 33, No. 8, August 2023: 927-939.

[kushami36]

I haven’t checked these ones, but papers behind a paywall can sometimes be accessed via:

sci-hub.se

[diogenes Remembering in reply to kushami36]

For me, I can't even open the site, because my Safari says its an uncontrolled gateway, and I get the 502 Bad Gateway term up.

[humanbean in reply to kushami36]

I think internet providers in the UK have put a blanket ban on anyone accessing sci-hub to prevent breach of copyright.

Mine certainly has, and I miss having access to research papers in full.

[jimh111 in reply to kushami36]

There were suspicions sci-hub was being used to spy on research. Academics were told not to use it in case spyware was downloaded. After Russia invaded Ukraine sci-hub was effectively shut down, presumably for security reasons.

It's a shame but we need a safe way to access research.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to jimh111]

It's called Open Access!

Anything else is grotesque. Just think of people who have suffered, even died, because doctors, other medics, friends, family, and patients themselves have not been able to access vital information.

Given how much research is in some way government funded, how much has patient contributions (our data, if nothing else), or is derived using Open Access papers, anything else is absolutely unethical and immoral.

(I understand that those without research funding have a major difficulty. But that is where government level bodies should provide either funds or practical resources to support publication.)

[jimh111 in reply to helvella]

I'm for open access. I can also see problems with vanity publishing where people pay to get published. It's a difficult line to tread, not least because currently perr review is nothing such. Current peer review is an old boys network (gender intentional) where journals publish studies reviewed by the authors' mates and novel research is suppressed.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to jimh111]

The current situation, though, is that Open Access publishing already requires an up-front payment to the publisher. And, at least in the properly set up ones, still requires some sort of peer review (however broken that is in general).

I mean, even some of the most rapacious of journal publishers seem to have some Open Access.

[waveylines]

Heaven forbid if the general. Public could freely access them..... we might find evidence that the heavy skew away from T3 products is ill founded and treating by the TSH continues to.lead to under treatment etc...