Fatty fish, like salmon, can thwart rheumatoid arthritis.
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Alarming News You Can’t Believe
Here are some recent misleading headlines: Glucosamine-chondroitin doesn't work. Saw palmetto doesn't work. Vitamin E doesn't work and may kill you.
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The Media is Wrong About Glucosamine-Chondroitin
You've probably seen headlines on TV and in newspapers, saying a big new government test of glucosamine-chondroitin found the pain-killers
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Best Pain Relief for Osteoarthritis
Here's good news for people who are taking glucosamine and chondroitin to fight the pain of osteoarthritis.
A five-year National Institutes of Health study finds that glucosamine and chondroitin together alleviate moderate to severe osteoarthritis knee pain better than either natural substance alone or even the pharmaceutical drug Celebrex.
This refutes speculation that glucosamine fights...
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Safety Bulletin: Mad Cow and Chondroitin – An Important Message from Jean Carper
Concerns have appeared in the press over the possibility that supplements, including chondroitin, made from bovine tissue, might be contaminated with proteins thought to cause mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE.
Any such risk is highly theoretical and extremely remote, say experts. First, no case of mad cow has ever...
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