A Vitamin Worth A Second Look
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Call it the "sunshine" vitamin, because it's produced by your skin using the sun's ultraviolet rays. The vitamin--Vitamin D--is known to help build bones. But as you'll learn in today's Lean Plate Club column, it may have many more health benefits from increasing immunity to possibly increasing y...
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Probiotics, the potentially beneficial bacteria and yeasts available as diet supplements, may not be as helpful as widely believed.
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BEIJING, Aug.19(Xinhuanet) -- A new study shows that Vitamin E may protect the elderly from getting colds.
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Women with higher or lower blood levels of vitamin A than average appear to be at increased risk of hip fracture, according to a report in the American Journal of Medicine.
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Macular degeneration is proving to be a field with eye-popping potential.
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People who take high doses of vitamin E - those exceeding 400 international units a day - to improve their health may be slightly increasing their risks of dying earlier.
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There's encouraging news about an enzyme replacement drug.
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Despite recent reports that show use of high-dose vitamin E supplements is associated with a higher overall risk of dying, at least one group stands to benefit greatly from the same vitamin.
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Vitamin D is best known for building strong bones, but it may have another benefit: longevity.
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NEW YORK  - In certain Middle Eastern and other countries where conservative dress curtails exposure to sunlight, high levels of vitamin D supplementation may be needed to raise serum levels sufficiently in women, investigators report.
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Most women are aware that  getting enough folic acid during pregnancy can help prevent  some birth defects, but many don&#39;t know that they should be  taking the vitamin before they become pregnant, a new survey  shows.
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Vitamin C can help to prevent cancer, but not the way that scientists thought, according to a study published Monday in the United States.
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Nutritional supplements are generally not taken into account when health researchers try to get a snapshot of the nationâs nutritional habits, a new study finds.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA. - Taking high doses of vitamin E may do more harm than good, a new review suggests. Some people take megadoses of the vitamin in the hopes of countering the effects of free radicals, molecules
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Antioxidant vitamins taken by tens of millions of people around the world won't lead to a longer life, according to an analysis of dozens of studies that adds to evidence questioning the value of the popular supplements. The large review of separate studies on thousands of people found no long-life benefit from vitamins A, E and C and beta carotene and selenium.
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Upping the daily intake of folate has been widely promoted in recent years to reduce women's risk of having a baby with spina bifida, but it also seems to have another benefit.
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Vitamin C can impede the growth of some types of tumors although not in the way some scientists had suspected, researchers reported on Monday.