Small But Mighty: A Thyroid Life

May '09 saw the first ever Thyroid Awareness Week, publicised on thyroid sites. So far as I could tell, the media didn’t refer to it. For such a common condition which is often mis/undiagnosed, this is ludicrous and is why I write this blog. Thyroid disease, so commonly un/misdiagnosed, can be dangerous and even, in some cases, life threatening. Even where symptoms are generic it is a tiny gland powerful enough to run a life. The Thyroid: Small but Mighty

Which Charity

Which Charity was a website set up by myself and friends, with the aim of allowing users to find causes they are interested in and ways of helping they prefer. It also had the aim of raising awareness of and supporting various charities through free advertising. Check out the official video here: http://www.youtube.com/user/WhichCharity ..and 'The Charity Supplement' here: http://www.scribd.com/Which%20Charity (note that there are many thyroid awareness documents included in this list) The website has now been handed over to a new team of keen, qualified individuals who have the time to take it further.

Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Popular or Ignored? - Study of Additional News Sites

15:00 | Posted by Louise Sopher |

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European newspaper sizes in August 2005. Le Mo...

I added the following news sites to look at:

Independent
Times
Daily Mail
Local News: Watford Observer/Borehamwood Times
JC

*Note that some are from the same company

Independent

Present news articles:

1 - Soya
1 - Hormones
1 - BBC presenter suffering from thyroid cancer
1 - Oprah Winfrey (who also has thyroid disease)

News articles more than 1 year old:

1 - Flouride
1 - Chernobyl

There were also some letters from readers, asking health questions which were to do with symptoms of thyroid disease.

2. Times

Present news article:

1 - Diabetes and Downs Syndrome - dated yesterday, 10th August!
1 - Cancer
1 - BBC presenter suffering from thyroid cancer
1 - Swine Flu
1 - SAD
1 - Hair Loss
1 - Genome Project

News articles more than 1 year old:

1 - BTF/Thyroid UK and how the thyroid is undiagnosed. Excellent article. April 2005:

There were 513 results for the search term 'thyroid', however by page 3 directly related results were not so predominant.

3. The Daily Mail
There were 10,20,50 results for the search term 'thyroid'!

Present news articles:

1 - Thyroid Awareness Week:

1 - 'The silent epidemic'

News article more than one year old:

1 - BBC presenter suffering from thyroid cancer
1 - Celebrity with thyroid disease
1 - Presenter with thyroid disease
1 - Sex hormones and the thyroid

Mail on Sunday 'You Magazine':

1 - Baby's IQ and thyroid disease
1 - Thyroid Cancer

4. Local news: Watford Observer
(The Borehamwood Times is the same company and would've had the same articles)

Present news articles:

1 - 'Local family perform for charity' - But there was no info here about the charity they were perfoming for, the BTF

News articles more than one year old:

Infertility and thyroid disease

5. JC

There were 2 about the prevalence of thyroid disease and thyroid cancer in the Ukraine, however these were not strictly about thyroid disease and this is not to be expected - they were about the suffering of the people of the Ukraine.

Whilst adding this commentary and articles, I found:

1 news article - very detailed, but JAN 2006

Enidnews.com - Oklahama, US

1 website - no date, but comments are closed

athens gynecology.com 'serving Athens and the surrounding Atlanta areas.'

The next post will be a commentary on these results compared with the original set.

Labels: General, Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, Media Thyroid Awareness Studies

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Synopsis: FOR SIX weeks in mid-2010 I lived in a village named Long Lamai with a tribe in Borneo known as the Penan, a once fully-nomadic, now mostly settled community. Whilst volunteering to teach English in the village I also got to work on my own project to collect stories from the villagers and to publish it in a book and sell it for the benefit of the community. HERE then is that book, containing thirty stories from twenty-one people; stories to entertain all ages with tales from Penan music, myth and legend to more serious ones about struggles in poverty, education and the need for the jungle to survive.

Whilst the information on this blog is well-researched and where opinions are presented, it is said so, I am an 20 year-old hypothyroid sufferer who is investigating and encouraging awareness of thyroid disease - I do not have any advanced medical training: DON'T take my word as fact. But you can still try it.

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