High levels of certain intestinal bacteria, like Fusobacterium nucleatum, can promote tumor progression in patients with colorectal cancer. Now, Japanese scientists have revealed a unique mechanism through which excessive ...
Nov 10, 2022
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Long-term treatment with iron administered intravenously improved symptoms and reduced recurrent hospitalizations among people with heart failure and iron deficiency, according to late-breaking research presented today at ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Two proteins ensure that cells can take up iron when needed. If both control proteins are switched off in mice, the animals develop severe anemia, as expected. At the same time, surprisingly, a cell type of the innate immune ...
Oct 7, 2022
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Most of the U.S. blood supply comes from about 5 million altruistic volunteers who donate blood regularly. Frequent blood donation is known to result in iron deficiency in donors, which has led to concerns that the practice ...
Sep 7, 2022
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A study by researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil and University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom shows that a combination of anemia and weak muscles in older people heightens the ...
Aug 29, 2022
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The prevalence of anemia during pregnancy, identified using the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Participant and Program Characteristics (PC) data, increased from 2008 to 2018, ...
Jun 24, 2022
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As the United States faces critical shortages of baby formula, parents are being cautioned against watering down formula in an effort to stretch out what they have.
May 18, 2022
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A nationwide baby formula shortage continues across the United States, with desperate parents scouring shelves to find nutrition for their infants.
May 16, 2022
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The effect of iron supplementation on skeletal muscle atrophy in cancer patients and sufferers from other wasting diseases has been investigated by a team of Italian and Belgian scientists which studied causes of these conditions ...
Feb 25, 2022
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Babies born to women with anemia during pregnancy have an increased risk of childhood anemia, according to a study carried out in rural India.
Dec 3, 2021
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