ThyroidChange Celebrates World Thyroid Day 2014 with a Patient Movement Demonstrating the Need for Improved Guidelines
ThyroidChange, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the treatment of thyroid disease, is using social media to highlight thyroid patient suffering and the need for improved treatment guidelines in honor of World Thyroid Day. The international thyroid community on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are sharing their pictures and stories of suffering with the #WeNeedChange. This movement is to raise awareness of the ThyroidChange mission and to educate other thyroid patients. - May 27, 2014
ThyroidChange Turns Social Media Blue During Thyroid Disease Awareness Month to Highlight the Need for Improved Treatment Guidelines
ThyroidChange, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the treatment of thyroid disease, is using social media to highlight thyroid patient suffering and the need for improved treatment guidelines. January is Thyroid Disease Awareness Month and in its honor, the members of the international thyroid community on Facebook and Twitter are choosing blue for their profile pictures and covers. The color blue is being used to raise awareness of the ThyroidChange mission. - January 03, 2014
ThyroidChange Becomes a Nonprofit Organization in the State of New Jersey
Born from the desperation of thyroid patient Michelle Bickford in May of 2012, the grass-roots initiative ThyroidChange has branched out to become so much more than the original petition to improve the treatment of and raise awareness for thyroid disease. With a presence on various social media, including Facebook and Twitter, biweekly blogs and its own US and international lists of patient-recommended doctors, the patient advocacy organization is doing its utmost to achieve its mission. And now - October 11, 2013
ThyroidChange Releases Video Testimony of Patient Suffering
Patients protesting current guidelines in the treatment of thyroid disease release video testimony demonstrating worldwide suffering due to insufficient treatment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-7AkhKhDsA&feature=youtu.be&hd=1). - July 04, 2013
ThyroidChange Advocacy Group Aiming to End Patient Suffering Due to Insufficient Treatment Guidelines Achieves 10,000 Signatures Worldwide
ThyroidChange Announces 10,000 Petition Signatures in Less Than a Year. Their Success Demonstrates That Current Guidelines Are Insufficient, Leaving Many Patients Suffering. - April 26, 2013
ThyroidChange's Global Protest for Improved Hypothyroidism Treatment Guidelines Refuses to Back Down
Thyroid patients around the globe continue to protest current hypothyroidism treatment guidelines. ThyroidChange, a grass roots patient effort to improve the treatment of thyroid disease, reports that the current guidelines leave too many patients symptomatic and demand changes in those... - March 26, 2013
Thyroid Patients Stage Social Media Protest Against Current Treatment Guidelines in Endocrinology
Thyroid patients are protesting current treatment guidelines for the treatment of thyroid disease. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and American Thyroid Association (ATA) issued these guidelines in September of 2012. Thousands of thyroid patients are overwhelming the... - January 16, 2013
Thyroid Patients Worldwide Paint Facebook Light Blue to Raise Awareness for the Undiagnosed and the Undertreated
Thyroid patients worldwide gave their Facebook profiles the blue ribbon treatment this week to showcase that January is Thyroid Awareness month, a project initiated by the thyroid patient advocacy group, ThyroidChange. May 2011, the group launched a petition as an international protest against the... - January 08, 2013