“I knew there was something deeper going on but [the doctor] never listened to me or my concerns,” Heather Wallace tells ...

"A century ago, much of northern America was known as the goiter belt," said The Economist. A lack of natural iodine in the soil and water, and an iodine-poor diet, led to the "characteristic neck ...

Goiter is an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland, the butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the neck. While iodine deficiency is a major global cause, both too little and too much iodine can ...