Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients articles

Recent articles from Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients

4th German workshop on clinical metal toxicology.
January 1, 2006... Another Ibcmt-approved workshop was successfully completed in Hersbruck, near Nuremberg, Germany. Lectures were held in the German language by Dr. Raymond Pahlplatz MD of the Netherlands and E. Blaurock-Busch PhD, Germany. Particular attention was given to the correct use of a variety of...

Intravenous vitamin C is selectively toxic to cancer cells.
January 1, 2006... National Institutes of Health scientists have confirmed the concepts that vitamin C is selectively toxic to cancer cells and that tumor-toxic levels of vitamin C can be attained using intravenous administration. The article, published in the September 12, 2005 issue of the Proceedings of the...

Self-injury in autistic teens.(care and treatment)
January 1, 2006... Bernard Rimland, PhD, gives an overview of factors that contribute to aggression and self-injury among autistic teens in a 2005 article for Autism Research Review International. Physical pain from migraine, chronic infection, stomach pain, and, oddly, hypersensitive hearing often underlies...

Vitamin C effective for melasma ...(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Sixteen women with idiopathic melasma were randomly assigned to apply 5% ascorbic acid cream on one side of the face and 4% hydroquinone cream on the other side, each night for 16 weeks. Sunscreen was applied daily throughout the study. The best subjective improvement was reported on the...

... and vitamin C lowers uric acid levels ...(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... One hundred eighty-four nonsmoking volunteers (mean age, 58 years) were randomly assigned to receive, in double-blind fashion, one of the following for two months: 1) vitamin C 500 (mg/day), 2) vitamin E (RRR-alpha-tocopheryl acetate, 400 IU/day), 3) both supplements, or 4) placebo. The mean...