Probiotic and preboiotic industry players must do more to get consumers on their side in the fight with regulators in the US and EU, and should also be doing more to help save lives in Africa, according to Professor Gregor Reid.
Long-term supplementation with multivitamins plus selenium may help delay the progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in people with early stages of the disease who are not yet eligible to receive antiretroviral therapy, a new randomised trial...
Consumption of high-dose multivitamin supplements offers no benefit to HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy, and may in fact lead to a risk of liver damage, warn researchers.
The US soy industry is supporting a new research project in South
Africa to fill a gap in the data as to how soy protein
supplementation could help people living with HIV and AIDS.
A daily high-dose carotenoid supplement restored carotenoid levels
and reduced "overall mortality" of AIDS patients, a group at risk
of low serum carotenoid concentrations said to be predictor of
death, according to new...
An international collaboration to research the safety and efficacy
of South African medicinal plants has attracted a $4.4 million,
four-year grant from NCCAM, and could result in plant-based
therapies for diseases rampant in Africa,...
Traditional African healers are helping to fight Aids in Tanzania
by prescribing herbal medicines that boost patients' immune systems
and appetites, helping them to fight off infections.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable
organisation set up by the founder of the giant Microsoft computer
empire, has given $20 million to a team of researchers
investigating whether Carraguard, a red algae gel, can...