Women who took pomegranate seed oil pills to relieve symptoms of the menopause, such as hot flashes, were found to receive no significantly better benefits than those who were given a placebo pill which contained sunflower oil, researchers from the Medical University of Vienna wrote in the journal Menopause…
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Filed under: Complementary Medicine on January 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »
Traditional Chinese medicine has long been used to ease pain, treat disease, boost fertility, and prevent miscarriage. Known in the Western medical community by its acronym TCM, these traditional remedies include herbal preparations and acupuncture…
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Filed under: Complementary Medicine on January 11th, 2012 | No Comments »
In order to find out the effect of acupuncture compared with sham acupuncture in treating migraines, a team of investigators carried out a randomized controlled human trial. 480 individuals at 9 hospitals in China who experienced migraines for over one year, with two or three migraines in the 3 months prior to the investigation, were […]
Filed under: Complementary Medicine on January 11th, 2012 | No Comments »
Low levels of vitamin D have been linked to depression, according to UT Southwestern Medical Center psychiatrists working with the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. It is believed to be the largest such investigation ever undertaken. Low levels of vitamin D already are associated with a cavalcade of health woes from cardiovascular diseases to neurological […]
Filed under: Complementary Medicine on January 7th, 2012 | No Comments »
A commentary by Dr. David Spence of The University of Western Ontario and Dr. Meir Stampfer of the Harvard School of Public Health in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) argues that vitamin therapy still has a role to play in reducing stroke. Vitamin B therapy was once widely used to lower […]
Filed under: Complementary Medicine on December 23rd, 2011 | No Comments »
In the Christmas issue published on bmj.com today, Professor Sir Malcolm Green explains: “a review of a historical study from 1848 reveals that cod liver oil was an effective treatment for tuberculosis.” 1,077 individuals with consumption (tuberculosis) were enrolled to participate in the study conducted by physicians at the Hospital for Consumption, Chelsea (now […]
Filed under: Complementary Medicine on December 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
Does vitamin D supplementation protect people from bone fractures, cancer and cardiovascular disease? Researchers wrote in Annals of Internal Medicine in two separate articles that so far there is no compelling evidence to support any of these claims. Article 1 - studies have indicated that vitamin D supplementation may play a role in […]
Filed under: Complementary Medicine on December 20th, 2011 | No Comments »
While many consumers equal ‘natural’ with ’safe’, botanicals and botanical preparations such as plant food supplements may contain compounds, like the so called alkenylbenzenes, that are of concern for human health. At high doses these chemical compounds can cause liver cancer in experimental animals…
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Filed under: Complementary Medicine on December 14th, 2011 | No Comments »
The FDA has for the first time taken legal action against a dietary supplement manufacturer and owner, which has substituted ingredients and products and failed to note the changes on the final product labels. The U.S…
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Filed under: Complementary Medicine on November 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first test for use as an additional, more specific test on human serum or plasma specimens found to be positive for antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi). T. cruzi causes Chagas disease, a serious and potentially fatal parasitic infection. The test, called the ABBOTT […]
Filed under: Complementary Medicine on November 25th, 2011 | No Comments »