during pregnancy, the need of mother and fetus to iron gradually increases and will reach at its most level at the end of the pregnancy. this study was preformed to evaluate the knowledge and practice of pregnant women in fars province about supplements containing iron intake. data collection was a questionnaire completed by face to face interview using simple nonrandom sampling method in 2997 ...

Effects of lowering pH of sugarcane molasses-based liquid supplements on ad libitum supplement intake were evaluated in an 84-d trial. This experiment was conducted, at Gainesville and Ona locations, during Summer 2000. Four treatments were a 16% crude protein liquid supplement (pH 4.2), and the same supplement acidified to pH 3.4, 2.9, and 2.3 using feed grade phosphoric acid added at 3, 6, an...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of a new, prescription-only medical food supplement containing omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids on dry eye signs and symptoms, with or without concomitant topical cyclosporine. METHODS A total of 43 subjects were randomized and followed for 6 months. Group 1 (n = 23) was assigned to take two soft geltabs of the medical food supplement by mouth twice dai...

In Hong Kong, the first case of haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) was performed at the Bone Marrow Transplant Center, Queen Mary Hospital (QMH) in May 1990 for a female patient with acute myeloblastic leukaemia (AML) with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)–matched sibling donor.1 Since then three more transplant centres have been established, including Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH) in 1991...