EUthyroid: making Europe smarter with iodine
February 2016
IDD Newsletter
In this issue:
- EUthyroid project: making Europe smarter with iodine
- Pregnant women in Sweden and Turkey are iodine deficient despite optimal iodine intakes in school-age children
- Maintaining IDD elimination in Mongolia
- Morocco: iodine supplements reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors in women
- How access to iodized salt changed in a decade: 2000–2010
- Egypt: Almost all pregnant women in Alexandria are iodine sufficient
- Iodized salt success in Sierra Leone makes women iodine sufficient
- Prenatal vitamins in Brazil contain too little iodine for pregnant women
- Are American alligators getting enough iodine in their diet?
- “Goiter and Beyond”: Philippines celebrates Goiter Awareness Week
- Headshots 4 Hunger: a unique campaign to support effective altruism
Meetings and Announcements:
- Basil Hetzel’s letters and manuscripts collection is available online
- Three decades of the IDD Newsletter
- The IGN annual Board and Management Council Meeting
- Symposium on iodine and pregnancy in London, UK
- In memoriam: Prof. Ebenezer Asibey-Berko (1944–2015)