Cranberries are rich in bioactive constituents purported to enhance immune function, improve urinary tract health, reduce cardiovascular disease and more recently, inhibit cancer in preclinical models. However, identification of the cranberry constituents with the strongest cancer inhibitory potential and the mechanism associated with cancer inhibition by cranberries remains to be elucidated. T...

Madame, Shirin Mirza1 concluded that the use of cranberry prevents UTIs. This was mainly based upon a cochrane review.2 However, the results of this Cochrane review should be interpreted with caution as the clinical evidence can, at the most, be categorized as level 2 (mid level). This Cochrane article reviewed 10 randomized controlled Trials (RCTs) or quasi-RCTs. The nature of cranberry produc...

Methods: 40 children were randomized to receive daily cranberry juice with high concentrations of PAC vs cranberry juice with minimal PAC for a one year period. The study was powered to detect a 30% decrease in the rate of UTI with Type I and II error of 0.05 and 0.2 respectively. Toilet trained children up to age 18 were eligible if they had at least 2 culture documented non-febrile UTIs in th...

Blueberry and cranberry are fruit crops native to North America and they are well known for containing bioactive compounds that can benefit human health. Cultivation is expanding within North America and other parts of the world raising concern regarding distribution of existing viruses as well as the appearance of new viruses. Many of the known viruses of these crops are latent or asymptomatic...

Context Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common; over half of all adult women will have a UTI, with a third having recurrent UTI. Women at higher risk of developing recurrence are older, postmenopausal, and incontinent and have cystocoeles with high postvoid residual volumes. Preventative strategies using prophylactic antibiotics may result in adverse side effects, antibiotic resistance and Clo...

An alpha-amylase inhibitor was prepared from cranberry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). The alpha-amylase inhibitor was composed of three different subunits not linked by disulfide bridges and only one of them contained carbohydrate. Although the inhibitor was stable at pH 3 to 7, it was heat labile at pH 3 and 5. Chemical modification of the amino groups and the guanido groups in cranberry bean alph...

The liver is an organ with several important biofunctions, for which there are very few effective and safe preparations that promote the functioning, protection, regeneration of cells. Sufficiently hepatoprotective activity can be found in plants. aim our study was to investigate chemical composition extract made from American cranberry (Oxycoccus macrocarpus (Ait.) Pursh) leaves its amino-acid...

For the second time this year, I have had a bout of what I think might be a u-tract infection, but I'm not sure if that's what it is. For about a week now I have had the urgency to urinate hundreds of times throughout the day, and could easily urinate every five minutes without problem. The bothersome thing is that, although I'm not incontinent, it is dripping a little and is therefore very unp...

For the second time this year, I have had a bout of what I think might be a u-tract infection, but I'm not sure if that's what it is. For about a week now I have had the urgency to urinate hundreds of times throughout the day, and could easily urinate every five minutes without problem. The bothersome thing is that, although I'm not incontinent, it is dripping a little and is therefore very unp...

For the second time this year, I have had a bout of what I think might be a u-tract infection, but I'm not sure if that's what it is. For about a week now I have had the urgency to urinate hundreds of times throughout the day, and could easily urinate every five minutes without problem. The bothersome thing is that, although I'm not incontinent, it is dripping a little and is therefore very unp...