In Brief: National thyroid screening campaign
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
National thyroid screening campaign: Capitol Hill kick-off of the "Your Thyroid: Gland Central" campaign, which offers free thyroid screening testing to the public, occurs June 25 with news conference held by Reps. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Olympic Gold medalist Gail Devers. Bayer Diagnostics is donating thyroid stimulating hormone tests to be used in the campaign, which began in 1996 and is sponsored by the American Medical Women's Association...