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Arthritis sufferers are bombarded by offers of supplements that are claimed to relieve the symptoms and reverse the effects of their arthritis. In fact, the supplement industry has introduced more than 800 claimed remedies for arthritis. So how are you to know which ones may really work, and which only separate you from your money? The [...] A 2 year study conducted by Dutch researchers has concluded that glucosamine does not provide any improvement on pain, function or disease progression in patients with hip osteoarthritis. 222 people were involved in the study conducted by Dr. Rianne M. Rozendaal at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Half of them were randomly assigned [...] The current study, an extension of the National Institutes of Health-funded Glucosamine/chondroitin Arthritis Intervention Trial (GAIT), did not measure effectiveness as a pain reliever, but specifically at impacts on disease [...] A Scottish court is hearing the case of Norman Ferrie, a 64 year old retired engineer from Invergowrie, Angus, who died unexpectedly less than 2 months after starting a course of glucosamine. Mr. Ferrie started taking the supplement in April or May of 2004 and became ill the end of June, 2004. He was admitted to [...] |
  
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