MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Polls open in Uruguay for a runoff election to pick the next president of the stable South American nation.

Milk is considered a complete food that contains all the nutrients required for physical growth and there is always a high demand for milk as it is consumed daily by almost all across age groups. The ...

Many prenatal supplements fall short, with less than 50% containing the recommended amounts of essential nutrients like ...

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

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are one of the first to test for choline and iodine, ...

New research reveals many prenatal vitamins don’t contain enough of the nutrients that are essential for a healthy pregnancy, while others contain harmful levels of toxic metals. The study published ...

Speakers at a workshop here today unequivocally called for ensuring marketing of only the iodized salt to protect the public ...

While iodine can be detected in urine, relying on such a test is not helpful, since 90 percent of the iodine you ingest is ...

While many of us might be familiar with iodine’s association with our thyroid, it might surprise you to know that this essential mineral also has an effect on the female hormone oestrogen.

She said that during the Diwali season starch adulteration in milk and milk-based sweets. "We took a sample in a test tube and we mix some distill water in it. We heated the sample and allowed it to ...

The wounded lie on thin mattresses wherever there is space. Image: Iodine and other debris on the floor of the Kamal Adwan hospital There is the occasional cry or groan of pain, but mostly people ...