If a woman experiences chronic stress late in her pregnancy, it can affect her fetus' ability to absorb iron by as much as 15%, according to a study led by UW Medicine researchers in Seattle.
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Q: Why am I seeing brands of baby formula I've never heard of, and are they safe?
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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, ...
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Micronutrient deficiencies can promote inflammation and render the immune system particularly sensitive to allergenic substances. In particular, iron deficiency signals danger to immune cells and leads to a more pronounced, ...
Jun 7, 2022
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"You are what you eat," as the old saying goes, is not always so simple. Depending on the food you have on hand, your access to nutrition information, and regional customs and traditions, sometimes you are what you don't ...
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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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A six-year study of nearly 100,000 women in Botswana has provided new evidence that relatively inexpensive daily diet supplementation of iron, folic acid and vitamin supplementation in pregnancy can reduce complications at ...
May 11, 2022
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Next-generation drugs against the sometimes fatal disease amebiasis could result from a RIKEN researcher's new strategy targeting a source of iron that an infectious protozoan parasite needs to proliferate.
May 9, 2022
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Scientists have developed a new nanotechnology approach for locating and removing the painful and dangerous lesions associated with endometriosis, a common gynecological condition in women of childbearing age.
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