Dietary soy and breast cancer risk
Soy food intake in the amount consumed by Asian populations may have protective effects against breast cancer, according to researchers...
The risk of fadang in dementia
The natives of Guam use fadang — the seed of the false sago palm (a cycad) (photo) — as an...
Zero trans fat is not the same as no trans fat
Federal regulations allow food labels to say there are zero grams of trans fat as long as there’s less than...
Comparing treatments for insomnia
Drs. Kalyanakrishnan Ramakrishnan and Dewey Scheid from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have published a review of treatment...
The need for vitamin D in people with epilepsy
During the First North American Regional Epilepsy Congress, researchers from the University of Texas reported that men with epilepsy who...
Mediterranean diet for Alzheimer’s disease?
A study of more than 2000 non-demented individuals conducted in 2006 concluded that better adherence to the Mediterranean diet was...
Is physical therapy cost-effective care for sciatica?
Not when compared to general practitioners’ care alone, according to researchers from Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Consumer alert: Blue Steel and Hero products
In the ongoing game of catch me if you can, these products have been caught.
Reconsidering the effect of folate on breast cancer risk
A published (and widely circulated in the lay press) study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden reported that high...
Can homeopathic products contain active substances not in homeopathic dilutions?
Not according to the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Care Products. L. Ramon Cuesta Laso and Mara Teresa Alfonso...
Stress-management for radical prostatectomy patients
Men receiving support before prostate surgery showed improved quality of life following surgery, according to a study presented during the...
Peri-menopausal symptoms treated with pycnogenol
This is apparently the first study of pycnogenol (French maritime pine bark extract) to treat peri-menopausal symptoms.
Dietary supplements, allopathic, and homeopathic medicines
An article published by John Borneman and Robert Field on the Hyland’s website (and here) provides insight to the regulatory...
Fewer calories or more exercise: Which is best for weight loss?
A study in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism reveals that dieting alone is as effective at reducing weigh...
Will adopting a healthy lifestyle in middle age improve your health?
The answer is yes — especially among people with high blood pressure, diabetes, or low socioeconomic status — according to...
Eat food, not nutrients
Michael Pollan, writing in The New York Times Magazine advises, “If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid...
Echinacea and the all too common cold
Taking echinacea after the onset of a cold shortens its duration or decreases the severity of symptoms, according to the...
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Mind-body interventions for chronic pain in older adults
Not much evidence is available. But here’s what 2 researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania discovered during their...
Music for pain and anxiety in children
Researchers from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada report, that “music is effective in reducing anxiety and pain in...
Cost effectiveness of OT in dementia
Researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands compared the cost effectiveness of community-based occupational therapy (OT) to...