(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent University of Georgia study indicates that a common vitamin used to treat breast cancer victims might actually be harmful to patients. The study, by Jason Zastre, an ...

Research uncovers a potential link between gut bacteria and chronic fatigue in IBD patients, with specific microbes predicting the success of thiamine therapy for fatigue relief. Study: ...

Jolliffe, McLester and Sherman, 10 in discussing the prevalence of various types of nutritional polyneuropathy in diabetic and alcoholic patients, suggested that thiamine deficiency might account ...

Current therapies for chronic hepatitis B are costly and come with side effects. If effective, thiamine is a cheaper alternative that would provide numerous advantages to a large number of patients, ...

A British pilot study found that high-dose thiamine therapy reduced urinary albumin excretion (UAE) in patients with type 2 diabetes and microalbuminuria, according to a report in Diabetologia (2008; ...

The basal ganglia play a critical role in regulating movement, cognitive functions and emotional processing. Disruptions within these subcortical nuclei are increasingly attributed to defects in ...

High doses of vitamin B1, or thiamine, could lower cholesterol in diabetes patients and help prevent heart disease, say UK researchers. The findings, based on a rat model of diabetes, may be important ...

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) is a brain disorder caused by thiamine deficiency. Learn its symptoms, causes, and ...