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BioCell Technology LLC has rebranded its ‘BioCell Collagen II’ ingredient to ‘BioCell Collagen’ as findings from the first human skin study ‘elucidate the ingredient’s full breadth of multiple benefits’.
A low-fat diet supplemented with fish oil pills may slow the growth of prostate cancer cells human prostate cancer tissue compared to a traditional high-fat Western diet, according to new research.
Pharma giant Merck’s European Consumer Healthcare unit has applied for a European Union, article 13.5 emerging and proprietary science health claim linking glucosamine and “normal joint health”.
Polyphenols found in strawberries could play a role in reducing the harm alcohol inflicts to the stomach lining, according to new research in rats.
Probiotic bacteria consumed in a yogurt may not change the host’s gut populations, but they do influence carbohydrate metabolism by the resident microbes, according to an ‘elegant’ new study using identical twins and germ-free mice.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has concluded Martek Biosciences’s DHA and EPA rich algal oil (DHA-O) is safe for use in the European food supply, including new levels of 450mg per day for pregnant and lactating women.
Belgian firm Vésale Pharma brings its probiotic technology to Australia and New Zealand for the first time, through a new alliance.
Supplements of co-enzyme Q10 may counter the rise in oxidative stress associated with strenuous exercise and reduce subsequent muscle damage, says a new study with ultra-runners participating in a 50 km run across Europe’s highest road in the Sierra Nevada.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put supplement makers in an “untenable” position with its move to discontinue an eight-year-old policy of enforcement discretion on health claims about phytosterols, according to the Council for Responsible...