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• n  deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree

• The blitz is on for ginkgo and other herbal products, but are they panaceas or placebos?.
• But what works in principle often doesn't stand up to pharmacological scrutiny, and ginkgo is giving scientists pause.
• ginkgo, long revered in the east, gets its first plug in a u.

• gingko
• maidenhair tree
• Ginkgo biloba

News & Articles

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• Doctors Health Press Reports on Study: NTP Warns Popular Supplement Ginkgo Biloba May Cause Cancer
  Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on a new study finding that the popular supplement ginkgo biloba may cause cancer. (PRWeb June 17, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ginkgo-biloba/doctors ...
  June 17, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Johns Hopkins in Telegraph.co.uk
  Dr Sylvain Dore, from Johns Hopkins Institutions in Baltimore, who carried out the study, said: "Our results suggest that some element or elements in Ginkgo actually protect brain cells during stroke. If further work confirms what we've seen, we...
• Tommy John in Connecticut Post
  I'm going to give him some ginkgo biloba to let him take and I told him that before my starters start they have to read a chapter of Beowulf,John said jokingly Sunday. "And he said, 'I've already read that before.' So his sense of humor...
• Martha Stewart in The Age
  I have Alderson ginkgo,Stewart, 63, said in the August cover story interview that hits newsstands on July 12.