Your thyroid needs iodine from your diet to make important hormones for your body. Eating foods like fish, yogurt, and iodized salt can help you get the right amount of iodine. Too much iodine can ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The 13-year-old boy came to the clinic with a rapidly ballooning neck. Doctors were puzzled. Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they — and the ...

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 ...