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...much B is in the pills, according to a consumer group, but in more than half the brands tested, the amount of vitamin B exceeded what experts consider safe. The worst offender: niacin, sometimes sold in doses 10 times the upper limit. Too much niacin--more than 35 mg daily--can cause skin flushing and even liver damage...
...eyes. A government report shows that high doses of antioxidants can slow the progress of macular degeneration, the nation's leading cause of blindness. The sight-saving supplements may prevent vision loss in more than 250,000 people with the disease. What to take? Vitamin C (500 mg), vitamin E (400 IU), beta-carotene (15 mg) and zinc (80 mg). The extra zinc may deplete copper, so take 2 mg of that...
...moved 205,000 cars last year, exceeding its goal by 5,000. And while sales are projected to dip to 187,000 cars this year, the company says it expects that number to rebound to 210,000 in 2002 - helped in part by the launch this month of sportier MG versions of its three Rover models. Moreover, dealer sales are up 8% on a year-to-year basis. "We've no reason not to be confident," says CEO Kevin Howe, a former Rover executive who was recruited back to the company by the new owners. Nonetheless, many analysts are convinced...
...away. But both sides may take comfort in the other findings that were released by the New England Journal last week. After studying 482 subjects bitten by deer ticks in a part of New York with a lot of Lyme disease, researchers concluded that a single 200-mg dose of doxycycline dramatically cut the risk of contracting the disease. That good news is tempered somewhat by the fact that 80% of patients who develop the infection don't remember ever being bitten by a tick. (The bugs inject an anesthetic into the skin to mask the pain and in their...
LESS IS BETTER Menopausal women who find the cure for hot flashes and night sweats worse than the symptoms, take heart. A study has found that low-dose hormone-replacement therapy--0.3 to 0.45 mg of estrogen, instead of the traditional 0.625 mg--is just as effective and has fewer side effects. Combined with progestin, researchers say, low-dose HRT poses no increased uterine-cancer risk and may reduce any potential increased breast-cancer risk. Although the FDA has yet to approve a packaged low-dose formula, doctors can get creative with available tablets...