Metametrix Clinical Laboratory, a leader in nutritional and metabolic testing services, announced the introduction of the new Fat-Soluble Vitamins Profile. This new profile is an excellent way to measure a patient’s overall health, nutrient processing, and dietary insufficiencies. The Fat-Soluble Vitamins Profile measures the following nutrients: — Vitamin A – essential for immune defense, neural [...]
The ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the safety of dietary supplements using nanomaterials is severely limited by lack of information, lack of resources and the agency’s lack of statutory authority in certain critical areas, according to a new expert report released by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). The report, [...]
Reading the buzz in the press these days, one might think Vitamin D has a major role to play. A few months ago, I posted a story about vitamin D and breast cancer. It was a post discussing a report presented at this year’s meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology that showed that [...]
International Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., P.O. Box 5165, Bradford, MA 01835, announced today that it is conducting a voluntary recall of all the company’s supplement product sold under the brand name of Viril-Ity-Power (VIP) Tabs, 560mg/serving. International Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. is conducting this recall after being informed by representatives of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that lab [...]
Jack Distribution, LLC, 1501 Green Road Unit C Pompano Beach, Florida 33064 and its wholesale distributors G %26amp; N works, Inc., and Devine Distribution, Inc., announced today that they are conducting a voluntary nationwide recall of all lot numbers of the company’s supplement products sold under the brand names Rize 2 The Occasion and Rose [...]
High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight and growth rate by about 50 percent in mouse models of brain, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers, researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) report in the August 5, 2008, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [...]
Despite considerable progress in research to understand the health effects of vitamin D, experts convened by the NIH to review the available data found major gaps in the evidence. The data are strongest in the area of bone health among elderly men and post-menopausal women, suggesting that increased vitamin D intake can improve bone health [...]
The “development of race-based products such as vitamins and drugs” by pharmaceutical manufacturers is “misleading the public to believe that races are biologically distinct, requiring race-specific products, but the basis for their wares flies in the face of science,” Susanne Haga, an assistant research professor at Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences Policy and Public [...]
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and their collaborators at Tufts University and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have identified a common genetic influence on B12 vitamin levels in the blood, suggesting a new way to approach the biological connections between an important biochemical variable and deficiency-related diseases. “The news here is [...]
Health Canada is advising consumers not to use the following product listed in the table below due to concerns about possible side-effects. Product Names: * Lover Liquid Nutriment Herbal Supplement * Onyo Manufacturer / Place of Origin: Manufacturer and place of origin are unknown for both Lover Liquid Nutriment Herbal Supplement and Onyo. Product Description [...]
