Thyroids are glands responsible of producing hormones that are vital for correct body function, and since there are lots of illnesses and disorders associated to it, a site like Endocrineweb.com comes in very handy, as it aims to serve the information needs of patients and their families, collecting and organizing more than 150 web pages on thyroid and thyroid disease.
The site is divided into seven larger topics: introduction to endocrinology (the study of hormones and the organs that produce them), thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, diabetes, osteoporosis and diseases of the pancreas. In each of these areas there are explanatory articles written by doctors in easy-to-understand language that, very much in the same way that an elementary-school science class would do, explains how every little part of each organ works, and explain what happens when disease or malfunction overcome, its consequences and so on, plus it gives insight into different procedures and surgery, why and why they are not necessary and why one kind of surgery is better that the other. There is also information on drug and chemical approaches to hormonal disorders. The idea behind this site is to help patients and patient’s family to understand their diseases, and in that way help them cope with it, and also to deepen the patient-doctor relationship, by allowing patients to more fully understand and trust their doctors at what they are doing. 
