Hugh D. Riordan, M.D., a tireless investigator for the use of vitamin C for cancer, infectious diseases and other disorders, founded the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning, a world-renowned research facility and laboratory in Wichita. Continue reading
I’m a registered pharmacist. I am having a difficult time with my job. I sell people drugs that are supposed to correct their various health complaints. Some medicines work like they’re supposed to, but many don’t. Some categories of drugs work better than others. Continue reading
When physicians criticized Linus Pauling for advocating vitamin C, Dr. Pauling wrote a book that became an all-time nutritional bestseller: Vitamin C and the Common Cold. It won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. Then, after he and colleagues demonstrated that vitamin C fights cancer, he was attacked again. Continue reading
As part of their recent OMNS critique of the practice of “evidence-based” medicine (EBM), researchers Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts argue that the legalistic requirements of EBM, such as its insistence on treatments that have met the “gold standard”… Continue reading
There was not even one death caused by a vitamin supplement in 2010, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. Continue reading
According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) there are about 600,000 deaths from heart disease each year. Specifically, the study found that each 20 micromole/liter (μmol/L) increase in plasma vitamin C was associated with a 9% reduction in death from heart failure. Continue reading
