BOXWOOD PREPARATION MAY SLOW PROGRESSION IN ASYMPTOMATIC HIV-POSITIVE PATIENTS. J. Durant, et. al., a French medical research team, found their interest piqued by a fluke case of an HIV-infected patient whose disease progressed atypically slowly. When it was found that this person had been taking a boxwood (Buxus sempervirens L.) preparation, Durant and colleagues decided […]
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ACUPUNCTURE PROVES EFFECTIVE FOR MANAGEMENT OF DIABETIC PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY. A 44-patient study of chronic painful peripheral neuropathy put acupuncture to the test in the management of this hard-to-treat complication of diabetes. Twenty-nine of the initial 46 subjects had been taking standard drug treatments, without success or with side-effect complications. B.B. Abuaisha, et. al., compared the […]
American Nutraceutical Association. * The American Nutraceutical Association is overseeing a pilot study involving 60 cancer patients that will assess the effects of a dietary …