https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. 'Overdosing' on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after they treated a man who needed hospital admission for his excessive vitamin D intake. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-vitamin-d-supplement-overdosing-doctors.html Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:30:02 EDT news576244320 B-group vitamins may be beneficial for maintaining concentration skills among people experiencing a first episode of psychosis, a study by researchers from Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, has found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01-b-group-vitamins-people-episode-psychosis.html Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:40:48 EST news466778441 "Eat your five-a-day" is a health slogan that has been kicking around since the 1980s. The UK government made it an official campaign in 2003. But understanding the exact benefits (and harms) that our daily diet has on our health is only starting to become clear now. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-nutrigenomics.html Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:10:13 EST news313404822 New evidence suggests that taking vitamin B supplements may help reduce the risk of stroke. The research appears in the September 18, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-vitamin-supplements-stave.html Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:00:01 EDT news298730009 Maternal nutrition is important to a developing embryo and to the health of the child later in life. Supplementing the diet with specific vitamins is known to increase health of the foetus for example folic acid (vitamin B9) reduces the risk of spina bifida. However not everything an adult might consume is beneficial to a developing baby. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows that caffeine is linked to low birth weight babies and that caffeine from coffee in linked to increasing length of pregnancy. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-caffeine-linked-birth-weight-babies.html Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:00:01 EST news280426349 An Australian research team has discovered how specialised immune cells recognise products of vitamin B synthesis that are unique to bacteria and yeast, triggering the body to fight infection. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-body-vitamin-bacterial-infection.html Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:00:01 EDT news269087639 New research by scientists at the University of Southampton could lead to the design of more effective drugs to combat malaria. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-vitamins-drugs-combat-malaria.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:48:03 EST news246894470