Dallas have brought to light new information about how bacteria capture iron from the human body, and the work has implications for the design of novel antibiotics. Dr. Andrew Ferguson, a postdoctoral ...

The dose relationship of hemiglobin iron absorption has been investigated in subjects with normal and depleted iron stores and was found to fit a linear regression in a bilogarithmic presentation of ...

If you take your iron every other day, it could give the overachieving hepcidin a chance to calm down. By the time you take your next dose of iron, you might actually absorb more of it.

In her Cambridge apartment, Sarah Martinez discovered something that changed her approach to iron supplementation forever. After experiencing months of unexplained exhaustion despite religiously ...

β-Thalassemia is a genetic disorder characterized by reduced or absent synthesis of the beta chains of hemoglobin, leading to ineffective erythropoiesis and severe anemia. Patients with ...

Chronic stress in the last months of pregnancy can reduce a growing fetus’s ability to absorb iron by up to 15%. The corresponding study was published in Scientific Reports. Pregnant women need an ...

If you’re a runner, especially if you’re a woman, there’s a good chance you’ve run low on iron, if not become outright anemic. Iron deficiency is extremely common among endurance athletes like runners ...