Beta carotene supplements may cause cancer - Very high doses of beta carotene supplements may be cancer causing, as two earlier, and controversial studies had concluded. Diets that are rich in fo...

Beta carotene: studies must take a wider view - Your leader in the September newsletter "Of Strokes and Smokers" about the beta carotene studies (WDDTY vol 7 no 6) bought up some important issues re...

The real problem with beta-carotene - I read with interest your Updates (WDDTY, vol 9, no 12) about the findings of beta-carotene and cancer, which I am already familiar with, but feel to...

Beta-carotene is good for veins - Atherosclerosis where fats narrow the main arteries, sometimes leading to a heart attack can be helped by taking beta-carotene, new research has disco...

Of strokes and smokers - Stroke is the third biggest killer in the West. The most frustrating aspect of this statistic is that it concerns a disease which is entirely preventa...

Children of smokers face increased cancer risk children of smokers fa - Almost one-fifth of lung cancers among non-smokers result from a high level of exposure to cigarette smoke during childhood and adolescence.

Children of smokers face increased cancer risk children of smokers fa - Almost one-fifth of lung cancers among non-smokers result from a high level of exposure to cigarette smoke during childhood and adolescence.

Carotene trial 'political' - The recent decision of the American National Cancer Institute to stop a trial which was testing beta carotene as a cure for smoking induced lung cance...