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According to the Iron Disorders Institute , iron deficiency is the leading cause of anemia in the world. Iron deficiency can be treated successfully, but the Center for Disease Control and Prevention still found that iron deficiency or anemia led to more than 4,800 deaths in the United States in 2007.Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to the body’s tissues. Without sufficient iron, your body makes less hemoglobin and fewer red blood cells, meaning less oxygen gets to where it needs to go.Causes You lose iron when you lose blood. Iron deficiency may be brought about by long, heavy or frequent menstrual periods, or internal bleeding caused by ulcers or some cancers. Prolonged use of aspirin, arthritis medicine or ibuprofen can also result in gastrointestinal bleeding.Iron deficiency may be the product of a diet that does not provide you with the proper amount of iron. This may happen if you are a strict vegetarian or vegan, or are old...
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Will the Olympics as we know it survive genetic engineering?That seems to be the question behind a new opinion piece in this week's journal Nature. As scientists unc...
On Nov. 7, 2006, Mary Kelly went for a routine pregnancy ultrasound. Three days later, she and her unborn daughter had become pioneers.Kelly and her daughter, Addiso...
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At last, it is written.Four years after he began his project to write out every word of the Bible, Phillip Patterson penned the very last lines Saturday at an upstat...
At last, it is written.Four years after he began his project to write out every word of the Bible, Phillip Patterson penned the very last lines Saturday at an upstat...
When your body is trying to tell you something—for example, that you're skimping on critical vitamins—it may go to some strange lengths. "With today's diet of proces...
Scientists: Skin Cells Converted to Embryonic Stem Cells Cure Mice of Sickle Cell AnemiaFriday, December 07, 2007PrintScientists have the first evidence that those "...
Santonio Holmes has been off his feet and away from the football field for a few months.It will be at least April before the New York Jets wide receiver can run agai...
In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible.On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrecti...
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