Iron overload: How tea, coffee, red meat and alcohol can affect absorption
Most of us are used to hearing about the risks of not getting enough iron. Yet having too much iron in the body can also cause serious health problems.
Sep 15, 2026
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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases: News and Research on Metal Metabolism, Inborn Errors
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Rare bone disease often goes untreated while patients quietly live with chronic pain
Teeth and bones are among the hardest structures in the human body, but certain inherited conditions can rob them of that strength. One of them is hypophosphatasia (HPP), a rare, lifelong genetic bone disorder that disrupts ...
Discovery of fat-burning 'switch' could lead to advances in bone disease treatments
Scientists' discovery of a molecular "switch" that activates an energy-burning pathway in mice has the potential to lead to new treatments for bone disease. The study, published in Nature, sheds new light on brown fat. Unlike ...
May 16, 2026
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Global survey reveals significant burden and inconsistent management of rare metabolic bone disorder in adults
A new international survey led by the International Osteoporosis Foundation reveals that adults living with hypophosphatemic osteomalacia (HO), a rare metabolic bone disorder, face a substantial and often under-recognized ...
Apr 25, 2026
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Haemochromatosis: The iron overload condition that too often goes undiagnosed
When we think about iron imbalance, most people are familiar with iron deficiency and the health problems it can cause. What many may not realize is that the opposite problem, iron overload, can be just as serious—yet many ...
Feb 7, 2026
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'Celtic curse' genetic disease hotspots revealed in UK and Ireland
People from the Outer Hebrides and north-west Ireland have the highest risk of developing a genetic disease that causes a dangerous build-up of iron in the body, a study published in the journal Nature Communications suggests.
Feb 3, 2026
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FDA approves first treatment for Menkes disease in children
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Zycubo (copper histidinate) injection as the first treatment for Menkes disease in pediatric patients. Approval of Zycubo was granted to Sentynl Therapeutics.
Jan 21, 2026
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Small vessel disease found in young patients with Wilson's disease
A new study from Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala University shows suspected small vessel disease in young patients with Wilson's disease. ...
Jan 7, 2026
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Gene therapy may offer new hope for infants with rare, fatal disorder
In 1962, a pediatric neurology resident at Columbia's Neurological Institute and his colleagues in the College of Physicians and Surgeons published a detailed paper in Pediatrics describing a new syndrome of neurodegeneration ...
Oct 30, 2025
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AI model analyzes speech to detect early neurological disorders with high accuracy
A research team led by Prof. Li Hai from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel deep learning framework that significantly improves the accuracy and interpretability ...
Jul 7, 2025
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