You might need an iron supplement if you're pregnant or if you have a digestive disorder that makes it hard for your body to absorb iron from food. (Photo Credit: Photodisc/Getty Images) Iron from ...

Transferrin saturation and ferritin concentrations improved significantly more in the ferric citrate than ferrous sulfate group over 12 weeks. Ferric citrate may improve transferrin saturation (TSAT) ...

NKF 2017-medication in packaging, brown bills In a 12-week head-to-head study, ferric citrate significantly increased ferritin and hemoglobin levels, whereas ferrous sulfate did not, investigators ...

“Treatment of IDA during pregnancy with IV ferumoxytol improved hemoglobin at delivery and reduced the prevalence of anemia to a greater extent than oral ferrous sulfate,” wrote the authors of the ...

IV iron dextran was the most cost-effective treatment, yielding 19.26 quality-adjusted life years at a cost of $157,500 vs 19.10 costing $152,900 for oral ferrous sulfate. HealthDay News — Intravenous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A spilled bottle of pills against a bright red background Our bodies need iron to function but it can’t make it on its own. We ...

IN recent years the drug industry has presented the practicing physician with an ever increasing array of iron preparations. Medical representatives, armed with excerpts from the medical literature, ...

Analysis of nationwide trends and outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement in hospitalized cancer patients over a 13 year period. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

A recently published report describes the diagnosis and treatment of a case of iron-deficiency anemia–associated thrombocytopenia secondary to recurrent nosebleeds. While thrombocytosis is known to be ...