More than 100 years ago, Americans were becoming deficient in the mineral iodine. It was causing problems like swelling in the neck—called a goiter—which signals that the thyroid had become inflamed ...

Case in point: iodine deficiencies are on the rise and it could have something to do with the fact that a lot of folks are ...

Iodine is essential for proper thyroid function—and your thyroid gland does a lot. It regulates your metabolism, supports your heart and nervous system, and impacts basic bodily functions, like ...

Doctors have long touted iodine as vital for healthy thyroid function, but researchers have recently discovered that not all forms of iodine are created equal. Here, a medical doctor and an analytic ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Most multivitamin supplements that contain iodine carry less -- and sometimes far less -- of the element than stated on the label, possibly putting newborns at risk for ...

Iodine is an essential element for synthesising thyroid hormones. A team of researchers from the Childhood and Environment Project (INMA) has studied the consequences of pregnant women consuming it in ...

The 13-year-old boy came to the clinic with a rapidly ballooning neck. Doctors were puzzled.Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they — and the boy — had been ...

(Reuters Health) - Women who are deficient in iodine and trying to get pregnant may have half the chance of conceiving compared to women with healthy iodine levels, according to a recent U.S. study.

One of the main roles for the mineral iodine is to help manufacture thyroid hormones. And once upon a time in America — especially in the Great Lakes region — there were many cases of goiter, an ...

Iodine deficiency, a public health concern resolved decades ago, may be making a comeback due to changing eating habits, according to new findings by McMaster University researchers. Scientists ...

When you think of iodine—the chemical element that helps your body produce thyroid hormones and regulate energy—you probably associate it with table salt. That’s because back in the 1920s, researchers ...