Thyroid the butterfly effect (2018)

Prescribed to more than three million people in France to replace the hormones that the thyroid no longer produces Levothyrox has so far been an uneventful drug But following a change of formula in March 2017 it is at the heart of a vast health crisis Dizziness fatigue memory loss palpitations muscle or joint pain some patients experience a nightmare The controversy grows More than 17000 reports of adverse effects have been recorded by the National Medicines Safety Agency Why did she ask the Merck laboratory now sued to change the formulation For several years specialists have also been sounding the alarm bells against the excessive screening and overdiagnosis of certain thyroid cancers