Research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases finds that the treatment of tuberculosis is improved when pattients are given vitamin supplements. Supplements included vitamins A, B complex, C, and E, and selenium
According to study researcher Dr. Eduardo Villamor from Harvard School of Public Health, a patients nutritiona staus is important to the outcome with [...]
Research has shown vitamin C and vitamin E to be good for just about every body part, new research from Italy shows they can cut Kidney cancer risk by over 40%.
The study is published in the International Journal of Cancer. Researchers from Milan’s Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche analyzed the diet of 767 renal cell cancer [...]
The potential of vitamin C has again been highlighted in a new study. This time vitamin C from dietary sources is associated with up to 50% lower risk of pre-malignant oral lesions in men.
The study published in The International Journal of Cancer analyzed vitamins C, E, A and carotenoids intake in diet and supplements for [...]
A new study has found that vitamins C and E supplements may reduce memory loss in type-2 diabetics. Type-2 diabetics are at increased risk of memory loss.
The small study found that daily doses of 1000 mg of vitamin C and 800 IU of vitamin E improved mental function after carbohydrate-rich meals, and may protect against [...]
The effectiveness of the flu vaccine is gamble. Months before the flu season, officials at the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services take a guess as to what flu virus strain will hit in the coming winter. Even if they quess right, the effectiveness of the vaccine has been [...]
Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, scientist have searched for the exact mechanism. Now a team of Johns Hopkins scientists may have found out how it happens.
The researchers have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C – and potentially other [...]