Positive Health Online

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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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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Issue 45

ZEIGER and colleagues, Department of Allergy, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, CA USA investigated the prevalence of soy allergy in IgE-associated cows milk aller1

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Issue 45

DAWSON and colleagues, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 77555-0587 USA investigated the effect of ascorbic acid supplementation upon blood lead levels in smokers .

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Issue 45

CURHAN, WILLETT and colleagues, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA gary.curhan@channing.harvard.edu write that urinary oxalate is an important1

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Issue 45

CAMPA and colleagues, Center for Disease Prevention, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33136 USA studied the contribution of specific nutritional factors upon disease prog1

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Issue 45

PALACE and colleagues, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St Boniface General Hospital Research Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada write that despite being one of the first vitamins to be discovered, the full range of biolo1

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