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A recent warning to avoid fish oil during chemotherapy for cancer treatments raises the question: Can vitamins and supplements do more harm than good? In the case of cancer patients taking fish oils, this might be the case. In mice, the administration of fish oil, while getting a common chemotherapy agent cisplatin (used in …
Whether or not herbal supplements are of any benefit medically is an important question that can be investigated by well thought-out studies that are done honestly and with a scientific approach, but that issue is secondary to the question of the accuracy of product labelling of herbal supplements. A recent study from Canada, employing DNA …
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