Vitamin C is so often suggested as a treatment for the common cold that it’s almost considered common sense. This well-known vitamin is primarily found in fruits and vegetables, with small quantities in…
Encouraging GPs to “on-sell” products to patients is likely to produce unnecessary or inappropriate prescribing.
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Swisse Vitamins Pty Ltd has been in the news recently over their Federal Court action to suppress a determination of the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Complaint Resolution Panel (CRP) about a number of…
The best way to guard against skin cancer remains covering up - and using sun screen.
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A study that suggests vitamin A could reduce the risk of melanoma should be treated with caution, according to Australian cancer experts who say the results are inconclusive and involve potentially toxic…
The belief that supranutritional doses of vitamins will improve quality of life doesn’t match what science tells us.
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When it comes to using vitamins to supplement diets, there’s a wide gap between what science says and what many consumers believe.
A recent study, for instance, established that some 52% of the Australian…
Healthy people without a known deficiency shouldn't take dietary supplements.
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A study published yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine has investigated the link between taking dietary supplements and an increase risk of death in older women.
Associate professor Ian Chapman…
Cancer patients need to think twice before adding vitamins to their treatment.
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Previously unthinkable questions about vitamin use by cancer patients are being asked following a series of recent clinical studies.
Is it time for cancer patients’ love affair with vitamins to end? Might…
