New heart risk: amino acid - Just when medicine had re-established cholesterol as the major cause of heart attack, new research has thrown up a new culprit that nobody had conside...

Amino acid reduces the effects of chemotherapy - Glutamine, an amino acid, can help reduce the serious side effects of chemotherapy treatment, researchers have found. ...

Autism: Amino acid DMG helps in 42 per cent of cases - Children with autism can be helped by taking the amino acid DMG (dimethylglycine), a major new study has confirmed. The benefits of the supplement –...

Drugs that cause strokes - A number of classes of drugs can cause cerebral hemorrhage or infarction. These include: ... ...

Aspirin won't prevent stroke in heart patients - A recent study which claimed that aspirin was a useful prophylactic for stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (BMJ, 1999; 319: 958-64) has been...

Alternative treatment for heart patients - There is no magic bullet. Prevention of heart attack requires a wide ranging approach and often radical change in lifestyle. ... ...

Glutamate in the brain is not caused by the glutamate we eat - Re a letter in your July issue concerning a possible link between monosodium glutamate (MSG) and excitotoxins:

Statin: Regulators extend licence, even though it doesn’t help heart patients - On the very day when AstraZeneca’s cholesterol-lowering statin drug Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) was approved to treat atherosclerosis (hardening of...