Vitamin D and fish oil ruled out as knee osteoarthritis treatments (University of Tasmania)

(Source: University of Tasmania) Despite good news for many years on the benefits of Vitamin D and fish oil, recent research at the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research has shown that neither will provide the answer to treating the pain of knee osteoarthritis. A very substantial clinical trial looking at the benefits of Vitamin D for individuals with knee osteoarthritis, published this week in the highly-ranked Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that Vitamin D supplementation provided no help in reducing knee pain or slowing cartilage loss. Symptomatic knee osteoarthritis occurs in 10 per...