A Finnish professor of pharmacology has questioned the findings
behind a study that suggests that lowering the salt content of food
could be bad for people's health.
Advitech's psoriasis nutraceutical is set come to market next year,
as the Canadian biotech enters into its first marketing agreements:
Cothera is to market and distribute Dermylex in France, and further
announcements for the...
Women who often snack on nuts are less likely to go face surgery
for gallstone disease, a major source of morbidity in developed
countries, shows a new study.
More than half the women participating in a trial in New Zealand
stopped taking HRT after last year's Women's Health study, report
researchers this week. Are natural supplements filling the gap?
Talks on solutions to combat the growing global incidence of
chronic disease continued this week when officials from the World
Health Organisation (WHO) met in Geneva with representatives of
some 30 food, beverage and producer associations.
The UK complementary medicines market has grown by almost 60 per
cent in the last five years to an estimated value of £130 million
(€187m), despite the impact of new legislation and negative
publicity regarding herbal remedies and...
German pharmaceutical and ingredients group Boehringer Ingelheim,
outpacing market growth, ended 2002 with a healthy rise in profits,
the company reports this week.
The UK division of Cintex, a leader in the design, production and
manufacturing of food contaminant detection equipment, is to
preview its latest low-cost X-ray technology offerings at the CIFA
2003, to be held in Rennes, France,...
As each day passes it would seem that new initiatives are taking
place in the western world to tackle the increasing problem of
obesity and diabetes. This week George W. Bush, US president,
announced that the fiscal year 2004 budget...
Britain's leading supermarket group Tesco opened a store geared
solely to health and natural alternative products in London last
week. The Nutri Centre chain, in which Tesco has a majority share,
is designed to meet growing consumer...
In a week of news awash with food safety scares, consumers will
find some comfort today with a report from the UK Food Standards
Agency that reveals health risks arising from mixtures of low-level
pesticides in foods - the so-called...
American scientists may well warn about the risks to human health
of reducing the levels of antibiotics in the food chain, but there
is still considerable opposition in Europe, as the UK's Soil
Association has shown this week.
Further evidence presented at the ICAAC meeting in California this
week shows that increasing public pressure - and better animal
husbandry - has led to a reduction in the use of antibiotics in
animals in the US. But is this necessarily...
The Food, GI-tract Functionality and Human Health Cluster
(PROEUHEALTH) brings together 64 research partners from 16 European
countries in the quest to obtain greater knowledge of the role of
the intestinal microbiota in human health...
In a recent research, Rutgers University scientists have developed
a way to use living plants to reliably and inexpensively
manufacture biologically...
Garlic could help combat cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers
at UK Wolverhampton University have been looking into the plant's
healing powers and...
In the U.S leading cancer researchers have agreed to help teach a
university course this spring that explores the health benefits of
fruits and Vegetables,...
