Study of B vitamins casts doubt on their use in Alzheimer’s war. A new study found no evidence that B vitamins improve brain function in the elderly, casting doubt on use of the vitamins to ward off Alzheimer's disease. [News Source]

Organic dairy farmers, consumers wary over growth of industry. A different kind of organic dairy farm is emerging out West-- corporate-owned feedlot operations with thousands of cows that are fed organic grain but, according to critics, get little chance to graze. [News Source]

Asthma study busts dust mite myth. Ridding the house of dust mites and making dietary changes does nothing to stop children developing asthma or eczema, researchers have found. [News Source]

Study: B Vitamins Do Not Prevent Dementia (Elite TV) A new study by researchers in New Zealand shows that people taking a regular dose of B vitamins were no less likely to stave off dementia than anybody else. The results of the study were published in the most recent edition of the 'New England Journal of Medicine.' [News Source]

B Vitamin Flunks Memory Test (TechNewsWorld.com) Folate and B vitamin pills failed to help keep elderly people's brains and memories sharp in the longest study yet to test this approach. Some scientists said the study was too small to be the final word, but it was one of the best done so far and came after three very large studies produced disappointing results using the same nutrients to try to prevent heart disease. [News Source]

Elderly Don’t Stay Sharp Longer With Vitamins, Study Finds (The Denver Channel) Researchers don't get the results they wanted in a study of vitamins and brain power. [News Source]

Elderly Don’t Stay Sharp Longer With Vitamins, Study Finds (WSB-TV 2 Atlanta) Researchers don't get the results they wanted in a study of vitamins and brain power. [News Source]

Vitamins might not help against dementia: study (People’s Daily) New Zealand research has shown that Vitamin therapy aimed at staving off dementia in older people does not work. [News Source]

Study: B vitamin pills don’t keep brains sharp in elderly people (Detroit News) Folate and B vitamins failed to help keep elderly people's brains and memories sharp in the longest study yet to test this approach. [News Source]

Disappointing results to vitamin trial (NZCity) Vitamin therapy aimed at staving off dementia in older people does not work, according to a new clinical trial. The major Otago University study found volunteers who took vitamins over two years performed no better in cognitive tests than those who had taken placebos. [News Source]

Vitamins fail to slow mental decline (TVNZ) Vitamin therapy failed to slow the mental decline of older people who have high levels of an amino acid that has been associated with cognitive disorders, according to a New Zealand clinical trial. [News Source]

B vitamin pills fail brain test (AP via Yahoo! News) Folate and B vitamin pills failed to help keep elderly people's brains and memories sharp in the longest study yet to test this approach. [News Source]