Multivitamins: a cost-effective healthcare solution?
03 October 2003
Study says daily multivitamin use by older adults could save $1.6 billion in Medicare costs over five years.
03 October 2003
Study says daily multivitamin use by older adults could save $1.6 billion in Medicare costs over five years.
29 September 2003
Glucosamine, used by millions of consumers across Europe to ease the symptoms of arthritis, has been classified as a drug in two European countries.
25 September 2003
Irish Examiner reports on the proposed legal challenge of the EU Food Supplements Directive.
02 September 2003
A Nobel-prize winner has said people should be told to look after their health instead of expecting science to "come to their rescue with a pill".
29 August 2003
The following statement was released today by US attorney Ralph Fucetola, the 'vitamin lawyer'.
28 August 2003
Following is an extract from the lastest (September 2003) issue of CAM magazine. The bid, by ANH, to overturn the EU supplement directive continues to be widely supported.
25 August 2003
Merck KGaA, a major pharmaceutical company with the largest share in the UK vitamins and minerals market, has aquired Peter Black Direct Marketing which includes the two well-known businesses, Lamberts and Nature's Best.
08 August 2003
News from the BBC: Taking certain types of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can double the risk of developing breast cancer, says a study of more than a million women.
08 August 2003
The only EU lawyers to have overturned an EU Directive have released their opinion which states there are grounds for a legal challenge of the EU Food Supplements Directive. Find out why immediate action is needed!
24 July 2003
A 16-year study on the relationship between Vitamin C consumption and heart disease in women shows that Vitamin C supplement users reduce the risk of of non-fatal heart attacks and fatal heart disease by 28%, compared with non-users. The abstract follows.
22 July 2003
The UK national media seemed to be disinterested in the fiasco surrounding the transposition of the EU Food Supplements Directive into English law. However, one of the top regional newspapers has picked up the gauntlet and finally given coverage to these important issues. Read on
21 July 2003
Read below Rachel Andrews report about the proposed challenge against the EU Food Supplements Directive being developed by the pan-European and international Alliance for Natural Health.
20 July 2003
Felicity Kendal from the UK's Daily Telegraph speaks out on contradictions and poor rationale in government policy on such diverse things as police patrols, mobile phones, junk food and..... nutritional supplements.
18 July 2003
Pressure by the UK and EU governments to limit the maximum allowed dosage of vitamin B6 continues, despite good evidence that doses at least 10 times greater than the upper safe level recommended by the UK's Food Standards Agency are safe.
17 July 2003
Is the simultaneous release of the perceived need by the US government and EU Commission to enforce very restrictive health claims regulations in the USA and European Union a mere coincidence - or is it part of bigger plan?
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