Word: vitaminally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BETHESDA, MD: Turns out that beta carotene, a popular vitamin supplement that has been touted as a cancer and heart disease preventative, not only does no good, it may actually increase the risk of those diseases among people who smoke or work with asbestos. The National Cancer Institute, which sponsored two newly concluded studies reaching that result, found the findings so important that it called a press conference today to make the news public. NCI said a study involving smokers was halted 21 months early because the damage was so marked. "The message here is, basically, eat your fruits...
...anomaly. He seems to make decisions not for political expediency but because he sincerely believes he is doing right. In the process, he has amassed a list of powerful foes that would make lesser men pack up and leave town. He has enraged the tobacco industry, the vitamin industry and the medical-device industry. A self-described Republican, he has alienated most of Congress's Republican majority, including Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, his former boss and mentor. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has called him a "bully" and a "thug" and accused him of using "Stalinist" tactics...
...impressed. They say that by focusing on the 17% of new drugs that are targeted for deadly diseases, the FDA has stalled the other 83%. "They're terrified of Nader and the left wing," says Senator Hatch, who parted ways with Kessler after a fight over regulating the vitamin industry, which is well established in Utah. "They want zero risk, and there's no way for there to be zero risk in anything." Representative Bliley, a tobacco-industry ally, goes further. The FDA's true mission, he has said, should be "to bring safe drugs and devices to the American...
Rimm was a scientific collaborator on two studies of vitamin E consumption and coronary disease published in 1993--one on men, one on women--which were performed at the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School, of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Stampfer, the lead author of the vitamin E study on women, says it sometimes makes sense to oversample specific groups because they are predominantly affected by the disease in question. "[Allocations of funding] should be driven by science, not by politics," he says...