Hypothyroidism is the most common reason for needing thyroid hormone replacement (see Hypothyroidism brochure). Pure synthetic thyroxine (T4), taken once daily by mouth, successfully treats the symptoms of hypothyroidism in most patients.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Chinese: é¿éå·´å·´éå¢æ§è¡æéå¬å¸; pinyin: ÄlÇbÄbÄ JÃ­tuÃ¡n KÃ²nggÇ YÇuxiÃ n GÅngsÄ«) is a Chinese multinational e-commerce, retail, Internet, AI and technology conglomerate founded in 1999 that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals, as well as electronic payment services, shopping search engines and data-centric cloud computing services.
While the exact date of the Alibaba IPO remains uncertain, the company has vowed it will happen in 2014. With a soaring valuation of $153 billion, up from $120 billion in October, Alibaba is slated to be the largest initial public offering ever. Serving China's 618 million Web users, the company had sales of $160 billion in 2012, crushing the $86 billion posted by e-commerce giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN ) .