News tagged with iron deficiency
Worm study yields insights on humans, parasites and iron deficiency
Using a tiny bloodless worm, University of Maryland Associate Professor Iqbal Hamza and his team have discovered a large piece in the puzzle of how humans, and other organisms safely move iron around in the ...
May 26, 2011 |
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Pre-conception and early pregnancy iron deficiency harms brain
A mother's iron deficiency early in pregnancy may have a profound and long-lasting effect on the brain development of the child, even if the lack of iron is not enough to cause severe anemia, according to a University of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Scientists discover final piece in phytate jigsaw
A team of scientists in Spain and the UK have identified the final piece in the jigsaw of how phytate is produced in plants.
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Significant findings about protein architecture may aid in drug design, generation of nanomaterials
Researchers in Singapore are reporting this week that they have gleaned key insights into the architecture of a protein that controls iron levels in almost all organisms. Their study culminated in one of the first successful ...
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Breakthrough made in assessing marine phytoplankton health
Researchers from Oregon State University, NASA and other organizations said today that they have succeeded for the first time in measuring the physiology of marine phytoplankton through satellite measurements ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 28, 2009 |
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Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism
Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Inadequate diet can lead to anemia in postmenopausal women
A new study published in the April 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association indicates that inadequate nutrition is linked to a greater risk of anemia in postmenopausal women.
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Helicobacter pylori infection linked to decreased iron levels in otherwise healthy children
Children without previous iron deficiencies or anemia who remained infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) had significantly lower levels of iron compared to children who had the infection eradicated, according to ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Ritalin may ease early iron deficiency damage
Ritalin may help improve brain function in adolescent rats that were iron deficient during infancy, according to a team of Penn State neuroscientists. This may have implications for iron-deficient human infants as well.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Is 'breast only' for first 6 months best?
Current guidance advising mothers in the UK to exclusively breast feed for the first six months of their baby's life is being questioned by child health experts in the British Medical Journal today.
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Polyphenol antioxidants inhibit iron absorption
Health benefits from polyphenol antioxidants -- substances found in many fruits and vegetables -- may come at a cost to some people. Penn State nutritional scientists found that eating certain polyphenols decreased the amount ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Doctors can influence when parents wean children from bottle, study finds
Family doctors and pediatricians can influence when parents wean their children from the bottle, thereby helping to reduce tooth decay, obesity and iron deficiency, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael's ...
Jul 12, 2010 |
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WIC might prevent mothers from feeding cow's milk too early
Some low-income mothers are more likely than others to introduce their infants to cow's milk too soon. In doing so, they may put their children at risk of health complications, according to a study by researchers at Penn ...
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Potential new target for drugs to treat iron deficiency and overload discovered
The discovery of a major player in the body's regulation of iron levels should provide a new target for drugs that prevent common iron deficiency as well as rare, potentially deadly iron overload, researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Gut worms may protect against house-dust mite allergy
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study conducted in Vietnam has added further weight to the view that parasitic gut worms, such as hookworm, could help in the prevention and treatment of asthma and other allergies.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 28, 2009 |
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