Ginkgo biloba may improve memory in MS sufferers
Scientists in Oregon, US have presented a study that seems to suggest that ginkgo biloba may help improve attention in MS patients with cognitive impairment.
Archives for April 27, 2005
Moderate alcohol feeds brain, and alcoholism?
Moderate drinking can boost the formation of brain cells, but could also lead to alcoholism, speculate Swedish scientists, reports Lindsey Partos.
Probiotic reduces gastric infection
A combination of lactic acid bacteria and a probiotic can help prevent gastric infection, according to research by the Institut Rosell.
Nutraceutical attributes record sales to acquisitions
Nutraceutical Corporation racked up $38.8 million in sales of its branded dietary supplements during the second quarter of fiscal 2005 - a three percent increase over the same three months of 2004.
Black cohosh could interfere with anticancer drugs
Black cohosh, a plant commonly used by breast cancer patients to alleviate the menopause-like side effects of therapy, may alter the effects anticancer drugs, suggests a study carried out at Yale School of Medicine.
DSM earnings improve in Q1
Sales and operating profit improve "considerably" in the first quarter for the food unit of Dutch chemicals and life sciences group DSM, the firm reports.
Indena to present glucose level supplement
Italian company Indena plans to present its dietary supplement Madeglucyl, designed to maintain normal glucose levels, at Vitafoods next month.
Don't sell ephedra until FDA position clear, says AHPA
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) is actively discouraging the dietary supplements industry from resuming sales of ephedra products following the court ruling that the FDA failed to prove that a daily dosage of 10mg or less presents an...