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Forgoing medical care in favor of orthomolecular treatments can lead to adverse health outcomes. [6] Health professionals see orthomolecular medicine as encouraging individuals to dose themselves with large amounts of vitamins and other nutrients without conventional supervision, which they worry might be damaging to health.
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Authoritative bodies such as the National Institute of Mental Health [12] and American Academy of Pediatrics [29] have criticized orthomolecular treatments as ineffective and toxic. A 1973 task force of the American Psychiatric Association charged with investigating orthomolecular claims concluded:
o-Xylene (ortho-xylene) is an aromatic hydrocarbon with the formula C 6 H 4 (CH 3) 2, with two methyl substituents bonded to adjacent carbon atoms of a benzene ring (the ortho configuration). It is a constitutional isomer of m-xylene and p-xylene, the mixture being called xylene or xylenes. o-Xylene is a colourless slightly oily flammable ...
Orthomol (full name: Orthomol pharmazeutische Vertriebs GmbH) is a family business based in Langenfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [3] It was founded by Kristian Glagau in 1991 and is now managed by his son Nils together with Michael Schmidt.
In 1963, Ortho introduced the second oral contraceptive available in the United States (Ortho-Novum 10 and Ortho-Novum 2, produced by Syntex). In 1964, Ortho bought rights to and marketed the Gynekoil (Margulies Coil) and Lippes Loop inert plastic IUDs in the United States until the mid-1970s and 1985, respectively.
Ortho-McNeil's parent company, Johnson and Johnson, also paid $75.37 million to resolve civil allegations under the False Claims Act that it caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for a variety of psychiatric uses that were not FDA approved.
The "ortho-" prefix refers to the position of the compound’s hydroxyl moiety, which is found in the para-position in vanillin. ortho-Vanillin is a fibrous, light-yellow, crystalline solid. Present in a variety of food products, it is not specifically sought after, and is therefore a less-commonly produced and encountered food additive.