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...study, over 8,000 women at high risk of heart disease were randomly assigned different combinations of vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta carotene for over nine years—the first large-scale randomized clinical trial of these vitamins, Manson said...
Manson, who is also chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, added that some subgroups of women did show benefits from taking vitamin C and vitamin E. Women who had three or more risk factors had a 42 percent lower risk of stroke, and smokers also appeared to have a reduced risk of stroke...
BRIAN WILLIAMS, NBC News anchor, on Jon Stewart. Williams called Stewart's Daily Show the "vitamin supplement" to the "main meal" of the network news...
There's no cure yet for mitochondrial disease, nor even a surefire treatment. Sufferers are usually given vitamin and nutritional supplements, which can help slow the progress of the illness, but they aren't always effective. "If you'd asked me a year ago," says Shoffner, "I would have said that's the only option." Since then, however, some promising drugs have been developed, and will soon go into clinical trials. And a new company called Edison Pharmaceuticals, of San Jose, Calif., was founded last year for the sole purpose of coming up with drugs for mitochondrial disease...
Concurrent use of supplements and prescription medicine is particularly dangerous for high-risk patients, such as those with liver or kidney disease, who are less capable of metabolizing non-vitamin dietary supplements...