Editor on February 21st, 2010

FDA is notifying consumers and healthcare providers of its warning not to use ear candles – a hollow cone about 10 inches long made from a fabric tube soaked in beeswax, paraffin or a mixture of the two – because they can cause serious injuries, even when used according to the manufacturer’s directions. According to [...]

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A Vitamin D Council newsletter is republished below. It should be of considerable interest to anyone with an autistic child and to those who care for such people, whether professionally or personally. Please read both the case report as submitted to Dr Cannell and Dr Cannell’s brief discussion following.
The Vitamin D Newsletter
 January 30, 2010.
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Editor on December 16th, 2009

It is good to note that Harvard Medical School is aware of the importance of vitamin D. Consider this from a recent edition of the Harvard Health Letter:
Heart disease. Falls and broken bones. Breast and prostate cancer. Depression and memory loss. These problems seem to have nothing in common, except that they are leading causes [...]

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One in three people over age 65 will develop vision loss, with blindness commonly caused by age-related macula degeneration (AMD). Nutritional supplements have proven effective in improving vision in sufferers of AMD.

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Editor on December 6th, 2009

In the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Urology, Stanford Medical School researcher Dr. Rodney Anderson and researchers at the National Center for Pelvic Pain Research, in a new study, demonstrated a high correlation between the location of painful trigger points inside the pelvic floor muscles of men with chronic prostatitis and the location [...]

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