Canadian based Institut Rosell offers abstracts on probiotics and clinical trial information.

Articles on probiotics and gastrointestinal health such as "Role of the intestinal flora in gastrointestinal diseases" (Vol. 356, Sup. 1) and "Probiotics in primary prevention of atopic disease: a randomised placebo-controlled trial" are available from the Lancet Publishing Group. To view them visit  the Lancet  and enter probiotics as your search term. The site offers free registration to allow you to have a username and password.

Visit usprobiotics.org, sponsored by the California Dairy Research Foundation and Dairy & Food Culture Technologies, for up-to-date information on activities, research and new developments on probiotics and dairy products.

The Food, GI-tract Functionality and Human Health Cluster located in Finland provides probiotics information through e-mail tiina.mattila-sandholm@vtt.fi and their web site.

The Institute of Food Technologists offers a Scientific Research Summary and an editorial on probiotics. To order reprints email sciencecom@ift.org.

The Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at the University of Illinois offers a Nutrition Analysis Tool to empower individuals to select a nutrient dense diet. It also offers educational resources such as information on functional foods and soy products. 

In addition to other information, the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research offers a meeting report on mitochondrial toxicity, which is suspected to be a basic cause of antiretroviral side effects.

Publications from the Gay Men's Health Crisis - Treatment Issues and the Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) note that changing eating habits and lifestyle may be helpful in dealing with metabolic changes.