Positive Health Online

Issue 178

SUN and COLLEAGUES,  School of Pharmacy, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, China review [150 References] the evidence regarding the mechanisms of anticancer activity in berberine an alkaloid in medical plants used in traditional 1

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Issue 178

ZHANG and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Community and Family Medicine, School of Public Health, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China studied the relation between vegetable and fruit intake and breast cancer risk 1

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Issue 178

MIGNONE and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. lmignone@hsph.harvard.edu quantified the association between certain fruits, vegetables, ca1

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Issue 177

KIM and COLLEAGUES,  Internal Medicine, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, 814 Sicksadong Ilsandong-gu Goyang City Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. smdkdy@duih.org determined the number of complementary and alternativ1

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Issue 177

CHAO and COLLEAGUES,  School of Nursing, Chang Gung University, Gueishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC reviewed [70 refs] the evidence regarding efficacy of acupressure, acupuncture, or acupoint stimulation (APS) for the management of adverse events due t1

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Issue 176

TACON and MCCOMB,  Department of Health, Exercise and Sport Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA. anna.tacon@ttu.edu describe the rationale and protocol for a pilot study in women with bre1

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Issue 176

KRISTOFFERSEN and COLLEAGUES, National Research Centre in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Tromso Science Park, University of Tromso, N-9037 Tromso, Norway. Agnete.Kristoffersen@fagmed.uit.no1

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Issue 176

GREENLEE and COLLEAGUES, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA.  hg2120@columbia.edu described CAM use amon1

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Issue 175

CLOUSER and COLLEAGUES,  Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA. mclouser@u.arizona.edu  attempted to determine the role of non-steroidal anti-1

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Issue 174

MUECKE and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Radiotherapy, St. Josefs-Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany conducted a exploratory prospective story to evaluate whether there were differences in selenium levels in patients with prostate cancer, benign prostatic 1

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Issue 174

SCHIEMAN and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta conducted a study via questionnaire to determine the frequency of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in general surgery, hepatobiliary and surgi1

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Issue 173

LEE and COLLEAGUES,  Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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Issue 173

JEONG and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea investigated the relation between plasma carotenoids, retinol and tocopherol levels and ovarian cancer risk in Korean women.

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Issue 173

JEONG and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea examined the relation between the plasma concentration of antioxidant micronutrients and endometrial cancer risk in Korean wo1

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Issue 173

CRONFALK and COLLEAGUES, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. berit.cronfalk@ki.se explored how patients with cancer in palliative home care experienced soft tissue m1

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Issue 172

FITZPATRICK and COLLEAGUES,  Mater Misericordiae Hospital and University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. jfitzpatrick@mater.ie reviewed (83 references) the effectiveness of several agents including selen1

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Issue 172

DANIEL and COLLEAGUES,  Nutrition and Health Sciences Program, Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA examined the relationship of these polyunsaturated fatty1

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Issue 171

WRIGHT and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA studied the effects of genetic variation in Vitamin E transport genes with prostate cancer risk.

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Issue 171

QIAO and COLLEAGUES,  Cancer Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China present a 10-year follow-up in the General Population Nutrition Intervention Trial, the randomized primary oesophageal and gastric canc1

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Issue 171

HABERMANN and COLLEAGUES, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA conducted a pilot study to study the usage of complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in long-term (5-20 years)1

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