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Finding yourself suddenly feeling tired, losing hair or even experiencing mood changes can impact your quality of life. Equally scary is not knowing what's causing those changes. While these same ...

My column in the Globe and Mail this week looks at iron levels for athletes, and in particular at new evidence that you can have normal hemoglobin levels but still be suffering negative effects from ...

Ferritin is the parameter most often used in primary care to diagnose iron deficiency. The cutoff value of ferritin can affect the number of cases diagnosed, however. A study published in JAMA Network ...

Ferritin is a protein that’s produced in the body’s cells, and largely concentrated in the liver and immune system cells. Ferritin stores and releases iron, which is essential for producing red blood ...

In simple words, ferritin is essentially the body’s iron storage protein. While some iron circulates in the blood as part of haemoglobin, ferritin represents the stored iron reserve that the body ...

Among blood donors with normal hemoglobin levels, low-dose oral iron supplementation, compared with no supplementation, reduced the time to recovery of the postdonation decrease in hemoglobin ...

A low mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) means red blood cells do not have enough hemoglobin. If a blood test shows MCHC levels, this may indicate anemia. Hemoglobin is an iron-rich ...