http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In a study published today in Pediatrics, scientists at Umeå University in Sweden conclude that giving iron supplements to low birth weight infants reduces the risk of behavior problems like ADHD later in life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-iron-supplements-adhd-birth-weight.html Attention deficit disorders Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:56:51 EST news274352161 Non-compliance with vitamin and mineral supplementation protocols after bariatric surgery could lead to nutritional deficiencies and related health complications, such as heart damage, according to two separate case reports unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-selenium-deficiency-cardiomyopathy-post-gastric-bypass.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:51:14 EST news270118266 Taking iron supplements one to three times a week instead of every day is just as effective at preventing anaemia in pregnant women, according to the findings of a new Cochrane systematic review. The authors of the review also showed that women experienced fewer side effects when taking iron supplements intermittently rather than daily. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-iron-supplements-pregnancy-anemia.html Health Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:00:03 EST news261160929 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Anoop Shah of University College London and colleagues report that, in people with stable coronary disease, there were threshold haemoglobin values below which mortality increased in a graded, continuous fashion. As well as a systematic review and statistical analysis of previous studies, the researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of patients from a prospective observational cohort. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-threshold-hemoglobin-mortality-people-stable.html Cardiology Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:41:51 EST news226122074