Positive Health Online

Issue 51

BOOMERSHINE and colleagues, Trident Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29406 USA. kelliehage@aol.com review (27 references) the efficacy of vitamin E in the treatment of tardive dyskinesia (TD) .

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Issue 50

HEMILA and colleagues, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland studied the association of vitamin C intake and risk of tuberculosis .

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Issue 50

COWAN and colleagues, School of Dentistry, The Queens University of Belfast, Royal Victoria Hospital, Northern Ireland write that although the antioxidant status of a person is thought to be important in the development 1

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Issue 50

WEBER, F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Vitamins and Fine Chemicals Division, Human Nutrition and Health, Basel, Switzerland reviews (41 references) the main role vitamins are believed to play in the preventio1

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Issue 49

PACKER and colleagues, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720-3200 USA. packer@socrates.berkeley.edu. write that there is increased interest in the biological activities of plant extracts fro1

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Issue 49

HEMILA and DOUGLAS, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland. Harri.hemila@helsinki.fi. write that over 60 studies have studied the effects of vitamin C on the common cold . The au1

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Issue 48

SEVERIN and colleagues, Institut fur Strahlenbiologie der Unviersitat, Munster, Germany studied the role of antioxidative capacity in psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease .

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Issue 48

WALMSLEY and colleagues, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge UK studied the relationship between cigarette smoking and a range of nutrient intakes and blood status indices in older people .

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Issue 48

MUDWAY and colleagues, Rayne Institute, St Thomas Hospital, London UK write that ozone (O3) imposes an oxidative burden on the lung as a consequence of its oxidising character during exposure, and indire1

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Issue 47

FOUCARD and MALMHEDEN-YMAN, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden write that all physicians were asked to report fatal and life-threatening reactions caused by food, following a fatal case of1

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Issue 47

GRUPPO ITALIANO per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nellInfarto miocardico investigated the effects of supplemental n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in patients with heart attack .

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Issue 47

CHEUNG, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital and Tung Wah Hospital. Mszklc@msnl.surgery.nottingham.ac.uk write that in most Western countries, gamolenic acid is the first-line treatment for women with1

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Issue 47

WHITING and LEMKE, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada reviewed (27 references) the association between excess of vitamin A intake, decreas1

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Issue 47

SERWIN and colleagues, Kliniki Dermatologii I Wenerologii Akademii Medycznej w Bialymstoku, Poland studied the role of dietary selenium in psoriasis .

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Issue 47

KUCERA and colleagues, Revmatologicka ordinace nemocnice MUDr. Mulace, Plzen studied the role of free radicals in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and degenerative diseases .

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Issue 47

PEDERSEN and colleagues, Primary Health Care Clinic, Nuuk, Greenland. Hsp@greennet.gl. write that Greenlanders (Eskimos) have a low prevalence of heart disease, which may be partly explained by a lower extent of atherosclerosi1

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Issue 46

KIDD USA writes that dementias and other severe cognitive dysfunction states pose a daunting challenge to existing medical management strategies and that an early intervention, integrative approach would see1

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Issue 46

BANERJEE and colleagues, Department of Occupational Health, All India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health, Calcutta India write that free radicals and lipid peroxidation play a significant role in the causation of human d1

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Issue 46

GOLDFARB, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina-Greensboro 27402-6169 USA write that several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the aetiology of exercise-induced muscle damage . The autho1

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Issue 46

HEMILA, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland writes that placebo-controlled trials have demonstrated that vitamin C supplementation decreases the duration and severity of common cold infections<1

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