Does drinking green tea reduce breast cancer risk?
Researchers from Vanderbilt School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee and the Shanghai Center for Disease Prevention and Control in the People’s...
Lose weight, gain control over incontinence
Obesity correlates with urinary incontinence. Might weight loss be an effective treatment? Researchers from across the US decided to find...
CAMophobia at Medscape
 Here’s the link to a brief review written by Dr. Jonathan Silver from New York University School of Medicine. You...
More tainted weight loss products
Here’s an updated list of 69 contaminated products identified by the FDA. What’s a consumer to think?
Soy effects on bone mineral density
Supplementation is unlikely to have significant favorable [effect] on bone mineral density (BMD), according to this review by researchers at...
ConsumerLab tests Coenzyme Q10
Just 1 of 39 coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) (ubiquinol) supplements tested contained levels lower than listed on the label. But large...
The STEP report on saw palmetto safety
STEP stands for “Saw palmetto for Treatment of Enlarged Prostates.â€
Treating tension-type headache with acupuncture
It could be a valuable non-pharmacological tool in patients with frequent episodic or chronic tension-type headaches, according to this Cochrane...
Acupuncture to prevent migraine
New data since the last review lead the authors of this Cochrane review to conclude, “Acupuncture should be considered a...
Omega-3 not effective for Crohn’s disease, again
 That’s the conclusion from this Cochrane review.
Food allergy and intolerance week
It started January 19th, but it’s never too late to join in. Here are several summaries posted over the past...
Background on vitamin B-2
Riboflavin (vitamin B-2) was originally recognized as a growth factor in 1879 and named vitamin B-2 according to the British...
An innovative way to get elderly people to exercise
Exercise, or simply expending energy through an activity that is a regular part of a person’s lifestyle may provide survival...
Does vitamin D reduce the risk of diabetes in infants?
Vitamin D treatment during infancy might protect from the development of type 1 diabetes, according to this review of the...
Apitherapy: Experience of German Beekeepers
 Apitherapy is the use of bee products such as honey to prevent or treat illness and promote healing. Researchers at...
Omega-3 and the nephrotic syndrome
Nephrotic-range proteinuria is defined as urinating more than 3.5 grams of protein per day. That’s 25 times the normal amount,...
Are the benefits of eating fatty fish due to selenium?
 Researchers at Hopital La Colombiere in Montpellier, France tell us, “The observed health benefits of fish consumption in the elderly...
Prevalence of vitamin B-12 deficiency
 Since fortification of flour with folic acid started 10 years ago in the US, efforts have been taken to fortifying...
How many patients for an acupuncture study?
 It’s an important issue when planning clinical studies of CAM. Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the...
Farm animals help treat mental disorders
Researchers from the Norwegian University tell us, “The benefits of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) for humans with mental disorders have been...