Thyroid Patient Advocacy-UK (TPA-UK) disagrees with many of the statements made by the Executive Committee of the British Thyroid Association (BTA) on natural desiccated porcine thyroid extract (Armour® Thyroid, USP). TPA-UK are very concerned that the BTA continue to advise that L-thyroxine (T4) replacement remains the treatment of choice despite the amount of evidence contrary to their opinio...

Gerald H. Hankes, Jeffrey L. Ardell, José Tallaj, Chih-Chang Wei, Inmaculada Aban, Merrilee Holland, Patricia Rynders, Ray Dillon, Rene Cardinal, Donald B. Hoover, J. Andrew Armour, Ahsan Husain, and Louis J. Dell’Italia Auburn University of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn, Alabama; Department of Pharmacology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee; Center for Heart Failure Resear...