Melatonin cream protects from radiation burns in breast cancer patients
Redness, tenderness, and swelling of the skin are common during radiotherapy for breast cancer. Melatonin-based creams protect from these effects...
First report: St. John’s Wort for autism
It’s just a report on 3 patients, but it’s important because some people with autism are already taking St. John’s...
Review: Melatonin to treat autism spectrum disorders
Sleep disturbance is common in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and melatonin is widely prescribed despite a lack of guidelines. Researchers...
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Review of CAM for behavioral health
Evidence for CAM to treat depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been reviewed by researchers at Louisiana...
Melatonin to treat insomnia in autistic children
During the Sleep 2009 meeting, researchers from Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee reported that in children with autism spectrum disorders,...
Melatonin treatment of insomnia in ADHD
Researchers from Duke University Hospital, in Durham, North Carolina found positive effects in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Melatonin for insomnia
Dr. Desiree Lie from the University of California in Orange has reviewed the evidence for a range of conditions that...
Is it risky taking antioxidants during cancer treatment?
Researchers from Columbia University in New York City looked at the evidence in breast cancer patients.
Short sleep duration and coronary artery calcification
Coronary artery calcification is the accumulation of calcified fatty deposits on the inside of the arteries that supply blood to...
Bright light, melatonin, and dementia
Researchers from the Netherlands set about to determine whether the progressive changes in symptoms seen in dementia might be affected...
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Most commonly used natural products
Here’s a follow-up to an earlier post on the use of CAM in the US in 2007 as surveyed by...
ConsumerLab tests melatonin supplements
Good news, all of the products tested passed the analyses for melatonin and lead contamination.
Giving equal time to CAM options to manage stress
An article published on Medscape discusses the impact of stress on insomnia. In addition to a brief mention of mindfulness,...
Comparing treatments for insomnia
Drs. Kalyanakrishnan Ramakrishnan and Dewey Scheid from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have published a review of treatment...
CDC reviews CAM options to minimize jet lag
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released its biennial revision of “the yellow book,” a health guide for international...
What to do about the high prevalence of insomnia
Patients with the highest risk for sleep disturbance are those with pain, mental illness, limited activity, and overall “poor physical...
Poison control centers report on the safety of supplements
In 1993, Senator Orrin Hatch said, “most of these [herbal remedies] have been on the market for 4,000 years, and...
Antioxidants are safe during external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer
A study presented recently during the Society of Integrative Oncology’s Third International Conference in Boston showed that taking antioxidant supplements...
Melatonin not effective for sleep disorders
Bandolier has reviewed melatonin and is unimpressed. Here’s what they found.