Four in 10 mothers 'need vitamin pills'
16 May 2005
Four out of 10 women need to supplement their diets with vitamins if they plan to have a baby, the Royal College of Midwives was told yesterday.
16 May 2005
Four out of 10 women need to supplement their diets with vitamins if they plan to have a baby, the Royal College of Midwives was told yesterday.
06 May 2005
Hard on the heeels of the Advocate General finding procedural flaws in the European Food Supplements Directive, the US based National Health Federation now finds procedural flaws in the development of Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements.
04 May 2005
The National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), both components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have come up with nearly $7 million to investigate the scientific base of knowledge about the safety, effectiveness, and mechanisms of action of herbal medicines.
29 April 2005
With food scares throughout Europe and ever increasing regulation governing the sale and manufacture of foodstuffs, those in the industry await the European Parliament's Food Supplement Directive with some trepidation. David Cullen and Marcella Clarke report
27 April 2005
Recently, the House of Commons health select committee looked at the submission of ghostwritten articles to medical journals. Witnesses from two pharmaceutical groups, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, "strongly denied that ghostwriting was practised in their respective companies".
27 April 2005
Millions of Americans take dietary supplements every day, and the numbers are growing as the Baby Boom generation ages. More and more Americans understandably are frustrated with our government-controlled health care system. They have concluded that vitamins, minerals, and other supplements might help them stay healthy and less dependent on the system.
22 April 2005
Millions die each year from heart disease and stroke, and the overwhelming evidence is that vitamin C supplementation would save many lives.
15 April 2005
A United States District Court ruled yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration failed to prove that a dosage of 10 milligrams or less of ephedrine alkaloids presents an unreasonable risk of illness of injury when the agency banned all ephedrine-containing dietary supplements last year.
15 April 2005
Statistical experts have already largely discredited the extremely poor meta-analysis announced last Fall by the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine that re-analyzed only 19 studies on Vitamin E.
13 April 2005
Mega-doses of Vitamin C can counter avian flu, hepatitis and herpes, and can even control the advance of Aids By Jane Feinmann
11 April 2005
A daily supplement of zinc can boost the classroom performance of 12 and 13-year-old schoolchildren, a study has shown.
11 April 2005
A robust database shows that dietary supplements of vitamins E and C are safe for the general population. Because these nutrients supply antioxidant and other functions for homeostasis and protection against free radical damage, supplementation has been intensively studied.
06 April 2005
Read this important report by the UK House of Commons Health Committee, the first since 1914.
05 April 2005
Advocate General finds Food Supplements Directive invalid under EU law. This is a remarkable victory for ANH and consumers of leading-edge food supplements.
29 March 2005
Giving pregnant women in the developing world a daily supplement containing 10 vitamins and five minerals could help increase the birth weight of their babies, concludes a study.
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