The Safety of Weight-Loss Supplements
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Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have weight-loss products that were even accurately labeled. According to a…
Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have weight-loss products that were even accurately labeled. According to a…
The author of a 2013 paper on supplement quality is now facing serious allegations of scientific misconduct. The post Questions…
Schneider Shorts 4.02.2022 - great men of science under attack wherever one looks, British doctors had fun with coronavirus…
The regulation of dietary supplements in the United States has been described as “too little, too late.” “Dietary supplements…
Declarações que prestei à jornalista Sofia Teixeira, para um artigo sobre Fake News em Saúde, publicado na revista Prevenir de…
Artigo de opinião do David Marçal e meu no Público de hoje, encerrando a polémica com Leonor Nazaré, curadora de arte da Fundaç…
I often read of recommendations for Ayurvedic medicine on sites espousing alternative medicine. According to the National…
Journalist’s Resource has pulled together academic studies that look at dietary supplements from various angles, including…
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A new study out of Australia looked at 26 different Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) products purchased from stores. They…
I don't want for us to take pills anymore, not that it's bad. We'll be stronger if we don't need them.
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Some of you might have already read or heard that DNA Barcoding is in the news again (e.g. here and here). The New York State…
Critics of the supplements industry will be calling for more regulations after what has been discovered at Walmart, Target…
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Today, as part of our 10 year anniversary, we take a look at a more contemporary measure of article level metrics in BMC…
Here at BioMed Central there are a number of ways we can keep track of how many times our articles are accessed (a more…
It’s not a good time for the makers of herbal and vitamin supplements. The better the research, the fewer benefits it shows.
Have you heard about the Echinacea that was actually ground-up Parthenium hysterophorus, an invasive exotic weed in…
If there is one aspect of “alternative” medicine that both critics and fans should agree on, it’s that products should be…
Rabish Chandra @rabishchandra (Views are personal) A group of researchers from Canada with the support of researchers from…
Flickr user SuperFantastic Many modern medicines are derived from plant products, with the active chemical components having…
Flickr user SuperFantastic Many modern medicines are derived from plant products, with the active chemical components having…
The regulatory system we have in the US for selling herbal supplements is screwed up. I've thought so for many years, and we're…
The herbal supplement market is big business, about $5 billion worth if we’re to look at figures. Unlike medicine products sold…
The supplement aisle at the drug store is the “friendly” section. It's full of Earthy packaging, few if any warning labels (perha…
W polskich internetach tu i ówdzie już pisano o potencjalnej szkodliwości leków alternatywnych – zwłaszcza różnego rodzaju…
Herbal medicine is popular. Consumers seem to be attracted by the notion that they are natural – and if it’s natural, it must…
I am not a fan of herbal supplements for many reasons. In short, herbs are drugs. Herbal products on the market are simply…