Determination of a specific causative disorder

Vitamin E Deficiency

Frank vitamin E deficiency is rare and overt deficiency symptoms have not been found in healthy people who obtain little vitamin E from their diets. Premature babies of very low birth weight (<1,...

Opioid antagonists

CD19 Antagonists

Anti-CD19 antibody-based constructs used to treat B-cell mediated malignancies and rheumatoid arthritis.

Vitamin B12

Use of low-molecular-weight heparins and vitamin K antagonists for VTE set for sharp decline as oral agents roll out

The market shares of low-molecular-weight heparins and vitamin K antagonists continue to be gradually eroded by the uptake of novel oral anticoagulants in Europe for venous thromboembolism (VTE) preve...

Mushrooms can provide as much vitamin D as supplements

Researchers have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25–hydroxyvitamin D) as taking supplemental vitamin D2 or...

Vitamin D deficiency: an interview with Kellie Bilinski

We know that vitamin D is important in keeping bones strong. In the last 30-40 years it has also been realized that vitamin D has a lot of other roles in the body. Vitamin D essentially has a role in...

Study: Mushrooms provide as much vitamin D as supplements

BOSTON — Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have discovered that eating mushrooms containing vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25–hy...

PAR-1 antagonists up risk of hemorrhagic stroke

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Protease-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1) antagonists double the risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), according to a new meta-analysis of nine trials.

Eating mushrooms can help increase, maintain vitamin D levels, find BUSM researchers

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25-hydroxyvitamin...

Nutrition: D-iabetes and D-eath D-efying vitamin D

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), obesity and vitamin D deficiency are pandemic. Two new studies confirm the diabetes–vitamin D connection by demonstrating a >1.4-fold increase in risk of the metabol...

Vitamin D - How Much Is Too Much?

Vitamin D is vital for absorbing and maintaining calcium levels in the body, and therefore reducing the risk of fractures from falls and broken hips. Vitamin D is also beneficial for fighting cardiac...

Role of vitamin K antagonists from a hepatologist's point of view.

Vitamin K antagonists are often used as oral anticoagulants for primary and secondary prevention of thromboembolic events. Vitamin K antagonists induce an anticoagulant effect by interfering with the...

Role of vitamin K-dependent proteins in the arterial vessel wall.

Vitamin K was discovered early last century at the same time as the vitamin K-antagonists. For many years the role of vitamin K was solely ascribed to coagulation and coagulation was thought to be inv...

Practical issues with vitamin K antagonists: elevated INRs, low time-in-therapeutic range, and warfarin failure.

Millions of patients worldwide are prescribed vitamin K antagonists for a variety of medical conditions annually. Despite widespread and long-standing experience with these medications, medical care p...

New oral anticoagulants : Better than vitamin K antagonists?

Many years of practical use and intensive scientific research have allowed vitamin K antagonists to become a cornerstone of treatment of internal diseases. Nevertheless, limitations in pharmacokinetic...

Efficacy and safety of the novel oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature.

Novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) have been proposed as alternatives to vitamin K antagonists for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation. Individually, NOA...