http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—A study involving researchers from Murdoch University, Curtin and Flinders universities has examined the use of nutritional supplements by pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and found potential deficiencies for babies – most notably in iodine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-breastfeeding-iodine.html Pediatrics Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:20:03 EST news272533080 Japanese researchers have created novel cell growth factor FGFC that is considered effective in preventing and treating injury due to high-dose radiation. Until now, there have been insufficient drugs effective in suppression of individual deaths due to radiation exposure. AIST has created the novel, highly stable cell growth factor FGFC and investigated its effect on serious impact to life caused by high-level radiation exposure by experiments on mice. Mice administered FGFC either before or after radiation exposure experienced prolonged survival, demonstrating that FGFC could be effective in preventing and treating fatal radiation injury. The researchers plan to perform a detailed safety evaluation of FGFC. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cell-growth-factor-injury-high-level.html Medical research Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:09:46 EST news271069777 Hong Kong said Thursday it will test babies who have consumed Japanese-made infant formulas found to have insufficient levels of iodine, after the products were ordered off the city's shelves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-hong-kong-babies-japanese-formula.html Pediatrics Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:10:30 EST news263700623 Congenital hypothyroidism is thyroid hormone deficiency at birth that, if left untreated, can lead to neurocognitive impairments in infants and children. Although the World Health Organization recommends 200-300 µg of iodine daily during pregnancy for normal fetal thyroid hormone production and neurocognitive development, the US Institute of Medicine considers 1,100 µg to be the safe upper limit for daily ingestion. A case series scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics describes three infants who developed congenital hypothyroidism as a result of excess maternal iodine supplementation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-associates-excess-maternal-iodine-supplementation.html Pediatrics Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:01 EST news262458126 (HealthDay) -- Patients with early-stage papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) may benefit from the use of a patient-directed computerized decision aid (DA) to provide medical knowledge and resolve decisional conflicts regarding the use of adjuvant radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment, according to research published online July 2 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-patient-decision-aid-beneficial-papillary.html Cancer Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:50:02 EST news260767522 An overactive thyroid gland, or hyperthyroidism, may increase the risk of hospitalization for heart and blood-vessel disease even after surgery to remove the gland, according to a new study. The results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-hyperthyroidism-linked-hospitalization-heart-blood-vessel.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:51:50 EST news259674688 A new gold standard for thyroid cancer treatment has been set, reducing radiation doses to just one third of the current level, according to research from the CRUK-UCL Cancer Trials Centre. The results are published in New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-trial-thyroid-cancer-treatment-safer.html Cancer Fri, 04 May 2012 04:18:08 EST news255323830 (HealthDay) -- Most people in the United States are getting adequate nutrition, but some groups experience lower levels of vital nutrients than that which is recommended for good health, according to the Second National Report on Biochemical Indicators of Diet and Nutrition released April 2 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-americans-adequate-amounts-vitamins-nutrients.html Health Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:30:01 EST news252644515 The world's population has never been so well supplied with iodine as today. Major progress in salt iodization is evident in a new global study in school children done by nutrition researchers at the ETH Zurich. But there is still room for improvement of the situation in Africa and South East Asia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-salt-iodization.html Health Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:40:01 EST news249809245 The offspring of women who were given micronutrient supplements (minerals needed in small quantities, such as iron, iodine and vitamin A) before they became pregnant had gene modifications at birth as well as when they were tested at 9 months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-exposure-micronutrients-pre-pregnancy-gene-modifications.html Genetics Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:03:04 EST news249134560 Papillary carcinoma is the most common form of thyroid cancer. Approximately one quarter of these carcinomas have mutations in the BRAF gene. The prevalence of such mutations is even greater in high-grade carcinomas, particularly those that are refractory to standard treatment, which is radioactive iodine (RAI). A team of researchers led by James Fagin, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, has now identified a way to potentially exploit the expression of BRAF by such cancers for therapeutic purposes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-braf-addiction-thyroid-cancers-therapeutically.html Addiction Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:41:39 EST news241101693 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital surgeons found that a carefully-selected surgical care check list of 12 measures reduced Whipple procedure wound infections by nearly 50 percent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-whipple-procedure-wound-infections.html Other Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:17:40 EST news238853849 The analysis of 180 CT angiography studies done using a 320 detector row CT scanner found that a contrast media protocol based on 60 milliliters of iopamidol "had sufficient enhancement in more than 96% of coronary segments," said Frank Rybicki, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and one of the authors of the study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-contrast-agent-dose-feasible-row.html Other Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:51:39 EST news236663484 Forty-five percent of children tested in the region around Japan's stricken nuclear plant were found to have traces of radioactive elements in their thyroid glands, an official said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-japanese-children-thyroids.html Health Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:55:34 EST news232876397 Where thyroid cancer patients go for care plays a large role in whether they receive radioactive iodine treatment, a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-thyroid-cancer-treatment-varies-hospital.html Cancer Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:33:44 EST news232731212 Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have brought attention to the potential health impacts for Korean and Korean-American women and their infants from consuming brown seaweed soup. Seaweed is a known source of dietary iodine, particularly in Korea; however, there is no scientific data on the iodine content in Korean seaweed soup. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-urge-awareness-dietary-iodine-intake.html Health Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:43:10 EST news229700554 Two articles in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine make a case for maintaining current U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations on the release of patients who undergo radioactive iodine treatments for thyroid cancer, known as I-131. Currently, the NRC recommends outpatient treatment for patients receiving radioactive iodine after total or near-total thyroidectomy; however, several groups have been urging NRC to mandate overnight hospital stays to protect others from a perceived risk of radiation exposure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-case-current-i-therapy.html Other Thu, 05 May 2011 13:55:38 EST news223822525