An Orange a Day Could Keep Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Away

Will an orange a day keep the doctor away?

An 80 year old man, who relied on a home based meals-on-wheels service was admitted to hospital with non-specific symptoms, but had clinical and biochemical evidence of scurvy. Subsequently, all new admissions (n=37) to the department over a three week period were assessed for evidence of undernutrition. It was found that 73% had hypovitaminosis C, with 30% having concentrations suggestive of s...

In this cohort, an apple a day could keep the doctor away.

A number of issues need resolution in terms of the potential health benefits of dietary fiber, and the article by Buil-Cosiales et al. (1) in this issue of the Journal addresses most of them. Rather than being a study on total fiber intake and risk of one specific disease, Buil-Cosiales et al. have addressed all-cause mortality, parsed out the major causes of that mortality, and included intake...

Can an Aspirin a Day Keep the Colorectal Cancer Away?

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Will an aspirin a day keep cancer away?

Does an apple a day keep the oncologist away?

BACKGROUND Apples have commonly been described as a healthy food. To understand better their role on risk of cancer at several sites, we analyzed data from multicenter case-control studies conducted between 1991 and 2002 in Italy. PATIENTS AND METHODS The studies included 598 patients with incident cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, 304 of the oesophagus, 460 of the larynx, 1953 of the c...