Vitamins and Supplements: Do They Work?

Vitamins and dietary supplements are big--more than 110 million Americans forked over a collective $28 billion in 2010 on little bottles of would-be health magic. Research is unclear, however, on whether shoring up your diet with extra vitamins, minerals, and other supplements helps or hurts--in the short run or in reaching for the century mark.

End of Illness proposes all disease can be eliminated

I was visiting a friend in Montreal when I spotted a book he had recently purchased: The End of Illness by Dr. David Agus (Free Press, $29.99). I got started reading it and was hooked enough to find a copy when I returned to Waterloo. The book has made a splash, challenging our notions of disease, especially cancer, and proposing that practically all diseases can be eliminated. He is an ...