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Good News, Bad News for Medical Nutrition USA
Danone entered into an agreement yesterday to purchase Medical Nutrition USA Inc. (MNI) for $62 million in cash. MNI will become part of Nutricia North America, Danone’s North American medical nutrition business, and the deal is expected to close early in the third quarter....
Atrium Adds One More, Acquiring Trophic Canada for $11 Million
Atrium Innovations, a publicly traded, Canada-based developer and marketer of dietary supplements, announced on March 18 their purchase of Trophic Canada, a leading manufacturer and distributor of supplements for Canada’s health food store market. ...
NCCAM Awards $6 Million to Herbal Cancer Research Center
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has awarded $6 million over five years to the University of Chicago Medical Center to create the Center for Herbal Research on Colorectal Cancer (CHRCC), one of four new Centers of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine funded by NCCAM this year. ...
Study Deals a Second Blow to Vitamin E and C
Researchers conducting the Physicians’ Health Study II dealt vitamins E and C a second blow this week, after announcing on Nov. 16 that older men who took the vitamins were no more or less likely to develop cancer than men who were given a placebo. ...
The Inclusion of CAM in the Classroom is changing the Face of Medical Education
Facing pressure from students and patients, and infused with grant money from the federal government and philanthropic organizations, many conventional medical schools that once dismissed integrative and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are embracing it wholeheartedly....
Government Pulls the Plug on Vitamin E, Selenium Cancer Prevention Study
The government is putting a stop to a major study into the effectiveness of vitamin E and selenium in preventing prostate cancer. ...
Supermarket Chain Shaking Up Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
Hannaford Bros. Supermarkets recently enlisted RedBrick Health to run a healthcare program designed to help employees take more ownership of their personal health. ...
Efficacy Concerns Surround Supplement Used to Treat Diabetes
Researchers in Belgium recently determined that a synthetic derivative of vitamin B1, benfotiamine, is not as effective as previously thought in treating diabetes. The study was published in the BioMed Central journal and determined that benfotiamine doesn’t dissolve and penetrate cell membranes as well as claims said it did....
CRN Announces Keynote Speakers for The Conference
David W.K. Acheson, M.D., and Josephine P. Briggs, M.D., will deliver presentations during The Conference’s opening session of The Conference hosted by The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) on the morning of Friday, October 3. ...
