“I knew there was something deeper going on but [the doctor] never listened to me or my concerns,” Heather Wallace tells PEOPLE Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working for ...

A woman with goiter has undergone a medical examination with the help of GMA Kapuso Foundation. According to Mel Tiangco's report on“24 Oras," Friday, Angelita Pigtuan noticed a lump develop in her ...

An impression has spread through this country that goiter, particularly in children, is a frequent sequence of communicable disease. To check up on so general an impression was Surgeon General Hugh S.

QUEZON CITY (PIA) — The Department of Health (DOH) warns the public against fake social media accounts posing as the health agency and endorsing dietary supplements. In an advisory, the DOH emphasized ...

Complacency and misinformation are driving Americans to undo public health progress. In the developed world, relatively insulated from the dangers of disease, we've forgotten how we earned this ...

Medically reviewed by Sohaib Imtiaz, MD Key Takeaways Himalayan pink salt contains high amounts of sodium but lacks iodine needed to prevent iodine deficiency.Too much salt of any kind raises the risk ...

The 13-year-old boy came to the clinic with a rapidly ballooning neck. Doctors were puzzled. Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they -- and the boy -- had been ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): AIIMS’s Department of General Surgery has operating on a 65-year-old woman suffering from an extremely complex condition. The patient had been dealing with a massive goiter ...

At the Congress of American Physicians & Surgeons in Washington last fortnight and at the American Association for the Study of Goiter in Memphis last week, staff men from the great medical clinics ...

Hyderabad: In an extraordinary feat of surgical expertise and multidisciplinary coordination, doctors at KIMS Hospital in Kondapur successfully removed a rare and massive retrosternal goiter from a 35 ...

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Analysis of iodide deficiency, thyroid function, altitude, neural and motor dysfunction and a variety of social and economic variables to ascertain the prevalence of endemic goiter in eight rural ...