Reuters By Shereen Jegtvig April 29, 2014 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – One in three adults in the U.S. is taking both prescription medications and dietary supplements, creating a risk for dangerous interactions, according to a new study. Multivitamins with added ingredients like herbs or fish oil were the most common form of supplement mixed […]
Frontline Medical News, 2014 Apr 23, S Freeman Full Story LONDON (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – Herbal medicines and other home remedies or supplements are a significant cause of hepatotoxicity experts warned recently during a symposium at the International Liver Congress, which unintentionally coincided with World Homeopathy Awareness Week. Although they are not at the very […]
Medscape Arthur L. Caplan, PhD April 22, 2014 Hi. I’m Art Caplan from the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. What do you do when your patient says, “Hey doc. I’m using a supplement,” or if he is taking some vitamins or something that comes out of […]
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH April 04, 2014 Hello. This is Dr. JoAnn Manson, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Today I want to talk about multivitamins. Is the jury still out? Should we be recommending multivitamins for our patients? Do we know who is a good […]
Roxanne Nelson February 24, 2014 About half of all Americans take supplements, but doing so is unlikely to stave off either cancer or cardiovascular disease. In its latest report, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to determine whether vitamins help prevent either of these diseases. However, the […]
Nature’s Sunshine Products NSP For customer and distributor discussions of Nature’s Sunshine Products. Not an official site of NSP. Centrum Silver Ingredients All in all these multis are very acid forming. First one is Vit A (50% from Beta Carotene) usually the other 50% is a palmitate which is a synthetic acid residual. They are […]
Thursday, January 23, 2014 Lawmaker concerned nutritional supplement company could be operating outside securities law as a pyramid scheme Washington (January 23, 2014) After hearing serious complaints of improper pressure and financial hardship, including from a constituent in Massachusetts who lost her entire retirement savings, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) is calling for more […]
By James P. Meschino, DC, MS Dynamic Chiropractic – January 15, 2014, Vol. 32, Issue 02 Doctors of chiropractic and other practitioners who routinely treat neuromusculoskeletal disorders and pain syndromes commonly encounter patients presenting with various types of neuropathies. Included on this list are diabetic neuropathy, compression and entrapment neuropathy, chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, post-traumatic neuropathy, inherited neuropathy […]
01/10/2014 04:54 pm ET | Updated Mar 12, 2014 Leo Galland, M.D. Author, Founder www.pilladvised.com A series of articles published on Dec. 17 in a prestigious medical journal, The Annals of Internal Medicine, received a lot of press because of an editorial entitled,“Enough is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements.” It’s safe […]
Date: December 30, 2013 Source: Oregon State University Summary: Most large, clinical trials of vitamin supplements, including some that have concluded they are of no value or even harmful, have a flawed methodology that renders them largely useless in determining the real value of these micronutrients, a new analysis suggests. These flawed findings will persist […]
Published: Dec 18, 2013 By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Full Story with video: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrinology/Thyroid/43501 Patients who take over-the-counter supplements that promise to enhance thyroid function may get more than they bargained for, endocrinologists warn. The supplements could contain unlabeled ingredients, including the active thyroid hormones T3 and T4, which could make patients hyperthyroid, […]
TACT: No CVD Benefit With High-Dose Multivitamins Michael O’Riordan December 16, 2013 MIAMI BEACH, FL — A high-dose regimen that includes 28 vitamins and minerals given to stable patients with a history of MI does not reduce their future risk of cardiovascular events, according to the results of a new analysis[1]. The results, from the […]
Paul A. Offit, MD October 22, 2013 Full Story: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/812751 Hi. My name is Paul Offit, and I am talking to you today from the Vaccine Education Center here at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Today we are not going to be talking about vaccines. We are going to be talking about dietary supplements. On […]
SP Fortmann, BU Burda, CA Senger, JS Lin, EP Whitlock Ann. Intern. Med 2013 Nov 12;[EPub Ahead of Print] Consensus and Guidelines · December 05, 2013 TAKE-HOME MESSAGE This meta-analysis of primary prevention trials in individuals without known nutrition deficiencies did not find evidence of a significant effect of any vitamin/mineral supplements on cancer or cardiovascular […]
Published: Nov 6, 2013 By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AASLD/42744 Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. WASHINGTON — The rate of liver damage caused […]
BUSINESS OR HEALTH PROMOTION? Loredana Covolo; Michela Capelli; Elisabetta Ceretti; Donatella Feretti; Luigi Caimi; Umberto Gelatti BMC Public Health. 2013;13(777) ABSTRACT Background Diabetes is one of the most widespread chronic disease. Although many medications are available for the treatment and prevention of diabetes, many people turn to nutritional supplements (NSs). In these years, the online […]
MedPageToday.com Published: Apr 15, 2013 By Kristina Fiore , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points Note that this study demonstrates that half of FDA class 1 recalls in the U.S. are for dietary supplements. Be aware that all of these recalls were due to the presence of an unapproved ingredient or drug. Dietary supplements that […]