For growing children and pregnant women especially, iodine deficiency can have lasting consequences. In today’s America changing diets, a lack of public-health education, and complacency mean ...

World Iodine Deficiency Day highlights the importance of iodine in diets for normal physical and mental development. Iodine deficiency remains a leading cause of preventable brain damage globally.

"A century ago, much of northern America was known as the goiter belt," said The Economist. A lack of natural iodine in the ...

Dignitaries and participants at the workshop THE FOOD and Drugs Authority (FDA), in collaboration with the United Nations ...

If you’ve ever noticed a lump at the base of your neck, it could be a sign of goiter, an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid ...

as well as the legacy of past iodine deficiency. Here are a few juicy nuggets about element number 53 on the periodic table, and its extraordinary uses. Seaweed, plankton, bacteria and some simple ...

Tyler Malkin, 14, won a top science award of $10,000 for a project from his eighth-grade class targeting iodine deficiency.

She said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) is revising the National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Program guidelines to ensure optimal iodine nutrition. Dr. Vardhan was ...

iodine—a practice that began in the U.S. in the 1920s when iodine deficiency was common. It has a fine texture that makes it ...

PETALING JAYA: Iodine must be added to salt being sold in Malaysia as part of a new rule that seeks to tackle iodine deficiency, says the Health Ministry. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor ...

A new Vitamin A Supplementation programme in Varanasi aims to protect 3.88 lakh children aged 9 months to 5 years from ...