BACKGROUND Although many health care professionals (HCPs) in the United States have been educated about and recommend dietary supplements, little is known about their personal use of dietary supplements and factors associated with their use. METHODS We surveyed HCPs at the point of their enrollment in an on-line course about dietary supplements between September, 2004 and May, 2005. We used m...

This document supplements Section 3 of the main paper. In particular, it includes the following: 1. Our segmentation initialization system illustrated by example (supplements Section 3.2). 2. Results illustrating the versatility of our segmentation initialization system for three segmentation tools (supplements Section 3.2). 3. Results illustrating the performance of our predicted initializatio...

Herbal medicines, including herbs, herbal preparations and finished herbal products, contain as active ingredients parts of plants or other plant materials perceived to have therapeutic benefits [1]. About 80% of the worldwide population use herbal products for their basic health care (primary care) such as extracts, teas and other active principles, a market estimated at US$ 50 billion per yea...

Tissue engineering, defined as using a combination of cultured cells and biodegradable scaffolds to repair tissue damaged by injury or disease, represents a booming sector of biomedical research. Animal experimentation is routinely performed prior to clinical trials. The presented study tries to translate the aspect of the 3Rs to tissue engineering research: Cell culture protocols were adapted ...

The authors evaluated the association between use of individual supplements of vitamins A, C, and E only and multivitamins and fatal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in a large prospective mortality study of US men and women. During 14 years of follow-up (1982-1996), 1,571 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma deaths among 508,351 men and 1,398 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma deaths among 676,306 women were documented. Long-ter...

PURPOSE To compare ingredients contained in top-selling brands of ocular nutritional supplements with the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) and AREDS2 formulae and investigate the validity of claims made by manufacturers of leading brands of ocular nutritional supplements. DESIGN Descriptive. PARTICIPANTS None. METHODS We examined the 5 top-selling brands of ocular nutritional supplem...

Chinese herbal medicine has attracted increasing attention due to its therapeutic effects. It demands understanding of the processing methods and generated changes control quality offer better final products. In this study, extraction differences were compared among direct plant extracts (DE), standard decoction (SD), spontaneous fermentation (SF) inoculated sequential (IF). Results showed that...

Herbal dietary supplements made from saw palmetto (Serenoa repens; Arecaceae) fruit are commonly consumed to ameliorate benign prostate hyperplasia. A novel DNA mini-barcode assay to accurately identify [specificity = 1.00 (95% confidence interval = 0.74-1.00); sensitivity = 1.00 (95% confidence interval = 0.66-1.00); n = 31] saw palmetto dietary supplements was designed from a DNA barcode refe...

AIM To recognize a line of treatment for scleredema of Buschke in an adolescent. BACKGROUND Scleredema of Buschke is an uncommon disorder characterized by induration of the skin, which includes a non pitting hardening of the skin around the neck, shoulders, and trunk sometimes the face. Three variants are recognized. The histopathologic features of scleredema are characterized by thickened co...