Herbal Products Review Provides Inaccurate Information on Dietary Supplement Regulations

Review article: herbal and dietary supplement hepatotoxicity.

BACKGROUND Herbal and dietary supplements are commonly used throughout the World. There is a tendency for underreporting their ingestion by patients and the magnitude of their use is underrecognised by Physicians. Herbal hepatotoxicity is not uncommonly encountered, but the precise incidence and manifestations have not been well characterised. AIMS To review the epidemiology, presentation and...

Herbal and Dietary Supplement-Induced Liver Injury.

The increase in the use of herbal and dietary supplements (HDSs) over the last decades has been accompanied by an increase in the reports of HDS-associated hepatotoxicity. The spectrum of HDS-induced liver injury is diverse and the outcome may vary from transient liver test increases to fulminant hepatic failure resulting in death or requiring liver transplant. There are no validated standardiz...

Herbal/hormonal dietary supplement possibly associated with prostate cancer progression.

BACKGROUND Patients seek herbal/hormonal dietary supplements (HHDS) to prevent and/or solve health and aging issues. After two men developed an unusual course of clinically aggressive prostate cancer within months of starting daily consumption of the same HHDS product, we investigated the effect of this product on prostate cancer progression. METHODS We evaluated serum levels of total testost...

Hidden Dangers: Herbal and Dietary Supplement Induced Hepatotoxicity

Herbal dietary supplement: continuing to explore cardiovascular protection.

The initial step of atherogenesis is the development of so-called ‘fatty streaks,’ which are small, subendothelial deposits of monocytederived macrophages. Both the dysregulation of modified lipoprotein uptake and cholesterol efflux in macrophages play an important role in the pathogenesis. Macrophage scavenger receptors, such as type A scavenger receptor (SR-A) and CD36, mediate foam cell form...