Year 11 Initiative
Education chiefs in County Durham are to mount a unique back-to-school initiative next month which they believe could result in record GCSE pass levels next summer...

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Adelaide Trial announcement - June 2006
Omega-3 fish oil can be more effective than the stimulant drugs that are commonly prescribed for children with ADHD according to the results of a trial from the University of South Australia in Adelaide...

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Avon Study Press Release
New research data from an extensive study shows that mothers who eat more oily fish during pregnancy give birth to babies with a higher IQ, and more advanced social skills later in life...

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Clinical trial boosts omega
A number of studies have reported similar results and this led to calls by some for omega-3 supplementation of schoochildren. Indeed, the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) last year reviewed the science...

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eye q baby launch
Mums know that the omega-3 essential fatty acid DHA which is found in some fish oils is needed through pregnancy and breastfeeding. But mums can’t breastfeed forever so what happens after weaning..

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eyeq - capetown story 2008
In March last year, Cape Town father Andrew Norman was fighting suggestions that his son Tristan be medicated for his problems at school, but three weeks later the teacher was asking what they’d done to him...

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eyeq - Durban story 2008
Mother and pharmacist Karen Norman knew fish oil supplementation was working for her then 15-year-old daughter when she came home excited because an accounting test had finally made sense to her...

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eyeq -joburg story 2008
JOHANNESBURG mother Heather Picton may not have had a well-researched fish oil supplement when her son got into difficulties at school, but she applied the “diet and fatty acids” approach anyway, and the results couldn’t have been more astonishing...

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Fish oil and blood pressure - Australian study
At any one time approximately one quarter of the UK population are on a diet1. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Hypertension, if these dieters took a fish oil supplement at the same time as losing weight...

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Sure Start Results - December 2005
The first results from a trial using fish oil with pre-school children were announced at a press conference in London on Wednesday 7th December. Children who took part in the research showed significant advances...

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Kaneki Hip Fracture and K2
Vitamin K is a cofactor for the enzyme responsible for the conversion of specific glutamyl residues to alpha-carboxyglutamyl residues in a limited number of blood coagulation factors (1) and bone-related proteins (2, 3). Vitamin K is thought to maintain...

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Knapen K2 improves bone geometry
Since the discovery of osteocalcin, the vitamin K-dependent protein synthesized by bone tissue, attempts have been made to correlate bone vitamin K status with bone strength...

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Monograph 2

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Regression of warfarin-induced calcification with K2
Arterial calcification is an important independent risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, stroke, and renal disease.1,2 Patients with manifest arterial calcification have an unfavorable prognosis compared with patients with no or mild...

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Rotterdam
Vitamin K is an essential cofactor for the conversion of glutamate into y-carboxyglutamate (carboxylation) and plays an important role in hemostasis through the activation of...

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Schurgers Vit K comparisons
Vitamin K is a cofactor in the production of blood coagulation factors (in the liver), osteocalcin (in bone), and matrix Gla protein (cartilage and vessel wall). Accumulating evidence suggests that for optimal bone and vascular health, relatively...

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uc MGP biomarker for CVD
Vitamin K-dependent proteins are present in blood and in a wide variety of tissues throughout the body; they exert a broad range of functions, for example as blood coagulation factors in hemostasis [1] . In recent years, one of these proteins has gained...

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Vit K suppl during OAC no real cause for concern
In response to the paper by Sconce et al,1 we would like to point out that we have previously suggested the possibility of using vitamin K as a buffer to increase the stability of oral anticoagulation therapy.2 However, we suggested the use of vitamin K2 instead of...

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VITAMIN K2 REDUCES WOMEN’S RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE

The main goal of the study carried out by Gast and colleagues was to investigate the association of dietary vitamin K1 (phylloquinone) and vitamin K2 (menaquinones) intake with the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD)...

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Vitamin K omnipotent
The dietary trace element vitamin K was discovered in the early 1930s by the Danish biochemist Henrik Dam. During his research on the cholesterol metabolism in chickens, Dam observed that chicks reared on a diet free of sterols and poor in...

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