Having studied in Germany, he was familiar with the Swiss practice of adding iodine to table salt. At a 1922 symposium held by the Michigan State Medical Society, Cowie recommended the iodization ...

Dr. Kepal Patel, co-director of NYU Langone Health’s Thyroid Program and chief of the Division of Endocrine Surgery ... cause in regions where iodized salt and other iodine-rich foods are ...