LONDON (BBC): The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested. A team at King’s College London said low levels of vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, was linked to a worsening of symptoms. Its latest ...

ISLAMABAD  – Adequate folic acid and vitamin B intake could help reduce vascular disease risk in patients, a study released here said.Conducted by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Jamia Millia Islamia, the study said foods containing vitamin B, like potato, greens, beans and fish and animal ...

DID you take your vitamins today? Many of us have been so seduced by the idea that supplements help protect us against ill health that we happily pop one, two or even more a day - and feel guilty if we forget.  In the UK alone, we spend more than £300 million on supplements every year. ...

ISLAMABAD - You can protect yourself better against viral infections, especially during autumn and winter, with vitamin D supplementation, says a new study.Since vitamin D levels decrease during the year’s last quarter when days are shorter and sunlight is relatively weak, this may explain ...

You could protect yourself better against viral infections, especially during autumn and winter, with vitamin D supplementation, says a new study.Since vitamin D levels decrease during the year`s last quarter when days are shorter and sunlight is relatively weak, this may explain why people are ...

OVER recent years, a glance at the ingredients on the back of my face cream has left me wishing I’d done a PhD in chemistry - all those AHAs, nanoparticles and pentapeptides. But some good news from the beauty world is that the latest wonder ingredient is something we all know and love. Good ...

LAHORE – Deficiency of Vitamin A can lead to many serious health problems like night blindness, poor immunity against diseases and increased mortality during measles, says Dr Tausif Janjua, Country Director Micronutrient Initiative. He expressed these views while addressing a training ...

GIRLS and young women who took lots of vitamin D were half as likely to suffer a stress fracture as those who didn’t get much of the vitamin, according to a US study that followed thousands of girls.Stress fractures are small cracks in the bones that typically affect people who do lots of ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - All pregnant women should be given vitamin D supplements to safeguard their babies life, as lack of it could be life-threatening for a newborn. Researchers say women who do not have enough vitamin D can experience complications in pregnancy which could be life-threatening for a ...

LAHORE (PR) - The American Business Forum held its 2nd Annual dinner inauguration ceremony at Lahore. A memento was presented to khalid Ahmad Malik, the Country Director of The Vitamin Company, by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif (through Mr. Zulfiqar Khosa) and Ms Anne W. Patterson, US Ambassador to ...

RADIOLOGICAL health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body's main protections against damage from low levels of radiation. Writing in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Hayes ...

ISLAMABAD (Online)- For those of you who are still taking high doses of vitamin C in the belief that it will help you prevent or shorten a cold, there is news for you. This is an Australian study that looked at what would happen if large doses of vitamin C were taken at the onset of a cold. ...

STRONG bones, a healthy immune system, protection against some types of cancer: Recent studies suggest there's yet another item for the expanding list of Vitamin D benefits. Vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," keeps the heart, the body's long-distance runner, fit for life's demands. University of ...