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)

 

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