The UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
is introducing warnings labels for black cohosh products on
potential liver damage, following reports from two committees that
have reviewed the safety data...
US nutraceutical developer TSI Health Sciences is building its
ability to cater to demand for ingredients in Europe, with the
establishment of a sales and marketing office in the UK.
Canada's Atrium Biotechnologies says it has landed in the top spot
in the US market for health and nutritional supplements marketed to
health care practitioners, thanks to its C$107 million (US$92
million) acquisition of HVL,...
A major study into the economics of older Americans taking omega-3
and lutein with zeaxanthin supplements has shown that they may
shave a combined $5.6 billion off health care costs over the next
five years, and help seniors live...
Health-related quality of life, or functioning, begins to decline
as soon as a child is above average weight, say researchers, but
the effects may not be obvious to parents.
Health Sciences Group announced earlier this week that it had
purchased Apple Peel Technologies after being impressed by the
science behind the technology, Philippa Nuttall reports.
ANI Distribution, the recently formed subsidiary of nutritional
supplements company Bio-One, has acquired the assets of Florida
Sport Nutrition Distributors.
Mutual funds investing in health and biotechnology stocks have
provided little shelter from the bear market this year. Managers of
these funds say an aging population underpins demand for health
care products and services and the...
Canada's PanGeo Pharma group has acquired the Quest Consumer Health
Care business of Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) for approximately
C$14 million (€10m).
Prescribing high doses of vitamin supplements to ageing baby
boomers with vision loss due to macular degeneration - the leading
cause of blindness in patients over 50 years old - could save the
North American health care system more...
New research in the UK suggests that reducing the salt intake in
people's diets may only have a slight effect on reducing blood
pressure in the long term. Moves by food processors to reduce the
'hidden' salt in foods...
The market for functional foods is being driven by a greater
responsibility for personal health care amongst Europeans,
according to a new report by market research company, Mintel.The
research shows that the European functional foods...