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Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It is believed vitamin D is beneficial for our epidermal and osteo health. The primary purveyor of this vitamin is our Sun. You won’t find vitamin D occurring naturally in too many foods, but many commercially sold milks will fortify their product with it. And we have seen, especially over the past few years, a plethora of information regarding the benefits of this all-important vitamin and how it can protect against everything...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Edison Pharmaceuticals today announced the initiation of a phase 2 clinical trial entitled, "Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of EPI-743 in Patients with Cobalamin C Defect." The trial is a placebo-controlled study lasting 12 months, preceded by a six-month run-in phase for all patients to establish a defined clinical and metabolic baseline. The primary endpoint is improvement in visual function with secondary...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Previous studies have suggested that levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, might be an adjustable risk factor for coronary heart disease. However, a recent comprehensive study has found that high blood levels of homocysteine have no meaningful effect on coronary heart disease risks. This makes the previous suggestion of lowering homocysteine with folate acid unbeneficial. The comprehensive study is made up of 19 unpublished and 86 published studies. The analysis...

A comprehensive study in this week's PLoS Medicine shows levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, have no meaningful effect on the risk of developing coronary heart disease, closing the door on the previously suggested benefits of lowering homocysteine with folate acid once and for all. Previous studies have suggested that high blood levels of homocysteine might be a modifiable risk factor for coronary heart disease, but in a detailed analysis of data from 19 unpublished and 86 published...

BOULDER, Colo. and PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boulder Diagnostics Inc. and Portland State University (PSU) announced today the entry into a license and collaboration agreement to develop rapid diagnostic tests for homocysteine and related compounds based on a highly specific dye technology developed at PSU. Under the agreement Boulder will finance further research at the Department of Chemistry, and PSU will be entitled to royalties on future sales of the licensed...

A commentary by Dr. David Spence of The University of Western Ontario and Dr. Meir Stampfer of the Harvard School of Public Health in today's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) argues that vitamin therapy still has a role to play in reducing stroke. Vitamin B therapy was once widely used to lower homocysteine levels. Too much of this amino acid in the bloodstream was linked to increased risk of stroke and heart attack. But several randomized trials found lowering...

Nutri-Med Logic Corp: According to a recently published study by the Laboratory of Nutrition, Faculty of Pharmacy, University Louis Pasteur, France, vegetarian diet is promoting illness and mortality, more specifically cardiovascular disease, unrelated to vitamin B status but possibly due to sub-clinical malnutrition, and/or hyper-homocysteinemia. Miami, FL (PRWEB) September 21, 2011 Nutri-Med Logic Corp: Is the vegetarian diet causing cardiovascular illness and, if so, would a diet...

Study Highlights: -- Obese teens may feel healthy, but blood tests reveal inflammation, insulin resistance and high homocysteine levels, metabolic abnormalities that heighten heart disease risk. -- Both obese and normal weight teens in the study did not eat enough fresh produce, fiber or dairy products, which resulted in deficiencies in important nutrients. ATLANTA, March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Obese teens may feel healthy, but blood tests show they have inflammation, insulin...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A perplexing medical paradox that taking folic acid, a B vitamin, lowers homocysteine in the blood, which epidemionlogical evidence indicates should lower the risk of heart attack. However, clinical trials of folic acid haven't shown the expected benefit.The explanation is surprisingly simple; lowering homocysteine prevents platelets sticking, which stops blood clots, and is the same thing asprin does. If people in the trials were already taking aspirin there would be no...

A perplexing medical paradox now has an explanation according to research undertaken at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and published in the current issue of the Public Library of Science. The paradox is that taking folic acid, a B vitamin, lowers homocysteine in the blood which, epidemiological evidence indicates, should lower the risk of heart attack, but clinical trials of folic acid have not shown the expected benefit.The explanation is surprisingly simple; lowering...