Numerous studies indicate that US blood donors, especially women, have a high prevalence of iron deficiency. Iron is lost with each blood donation, and since donors are eligible to donate blood every eight weeks, it is a ...

Pica is an eating disorder of chewing non-nutritional substances such as ice, dirt, corn starch, paint etc. for more than one month, as diagnosed based on DSM-V criteria. Pagophagia (consumption of ice) is the predominant ...