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1963.  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) - June 29, 2005 

REVIEW OF STUDIES FINDS VITAMIN C OF LITTLE BENEFIT TO COLD SUFFERERS  
  A new review of 65 years of research on colds and vitamin C concludes there's little evidence that 200 milligrams or more a day wards off or shortens the duration of the common cold -- with the possible exception of people exposed to extreme cold or physical stress.The review's authors, Robert Douglas of the Australian National University and Harri Hemila of the University of Helsinki, Finland, wrote that the "lack of effect of [preventive] vitamin C...

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1963.  Ocala Star-Banner (FL) - June 28, 2005 

Research review questions effect of vitamin C on colds  
  A new review of 65 years of research on colds and vitamin C concludes there's little evidence that 200 milligrams or more a day wards off or shortens the duration of the common cold - with the possible exception of people exposed to extreme cold or physical stress. The review's authors, Robert Douglas of the Australian National University and Harri Hemila of the University of Helsinki, Finland, wrote that the "lack of effect of (preventive) vitamin C...

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1963.  Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA) - June 15, 2001 

LAB STUDY: VITAMIN C PILLS MAY BE HARMFUL,  VITAMIN HELPS PRODUCE TOXINS THAT CAN DAMAGE DNA  
  WASHINGTON --- The vitamin C pills taken by millions of health-conscious Americans may actually help produce toxins that can damage their DNA, a step toward forming cancer cells, a laboratory study suggests.In a study appearing today in the journal Science, University of Pennsylvania researchers said they found in test tube experiments analyzing the action of vitamin C that the nutrient can act as a catalyst to help make a toxin that can injure DNA, the body's genetic code. The...

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1963.  The Record (New Jersey) - April 11, 2000 

LIMITS SET ON INTAKE OF VITAMINS C, E U.S. WARNS OF POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS  
  You can get too much of some good things, including vitamins C and E, the federal government's watchdog for nutritional standards said Monday. For the first time, the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, set limits on daily consumption of vitamins C and E in an effort to reduce the risk of adverse side effects from overuse.While institute scientists found that extremely large doses of the substances could cause health problems, the agency also called...

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1963.  Rocky Mountain News (CO) - March 2, 1997 

VITAMIN C DEFICIENCY LINKED TO HEART ATTACKS  
  Vitamin C may be important in protecting against heart attacks, Finnish researchers reported Friday. Men deficient in the vitamin were more than three times as likely to have a heart attack, they said.Jukka Salonen and colleagues at the University of Kuopio studied 1,600 men ages 42 to 60 from eastern Finland, where people tend not to absorb much vitamin C and where deaths from heart disease are common. All the men were free of heart disease at the start of the study. From 1984 to 1992, 70...

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1963.  Seattle Post-Intelligencer - May 24, 1995 

STUDY FINDS LOW DOSES OF VITAMIN C CAN BE HIGHLY POTENT IN ELDERLY PATIENTS  
  It's astonishing how even modest doses of vitamin C can help elderly people recover from severe respiratory infections. That's what doctors at St. Luke's Hospital in Huddersfield, United Kingdom, recently discovered.In a study of 57 elderly patients hospitalized for acute bronchitis or pneumonia, about half received 200 milligrams of vitamin C per day; the others got a placebo. Within two weeks it was apparent that those on vitamin C were doing...

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1963.  Wichita Eagle, The (KS) - May 15, 1992 

HIS BELIEF IN VITAMIN C UNSHAKEN BY THE BIG C  
  PALO ALTO, Calif. For a quarter century, two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling has taken megadoses of vitamin C and a lot of flak from skeptics for trying to stave off the deadly C cancer.Time and disease finally caught up with him in his 10th decade, he said Wednesday, revealing he was diagnosed with prostate cancer five months ago. But at 91, he says he's recovering. "Practically all old men are found to be developing cancer of the prostate sooner or...

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1963.  The Cincinnati Post - May 8, 1992 

DAILY DOSE OF VITAMIN C CAN ADD YEARS TO LIFE  
  Vitamin C may help people live longer - men by up to six years and women for about one year.That's according to a new study that also emphasizes that it's better to get your vitamin C dose from five daily servings of fresh fruits and vegetables instead of vitamin pills. Researchers found that taking 300 to 400 milligrams of vitamin C daily may help men live about six years longer than men who don't. For women, the benefits are about one year.The...

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1963.  Seattle Post-Intelligencer - January 29, 1992 

STUDY BOASTS OF VITAMIN C BENEFIT  
  Planning to father a child? Be sure to eat enough vitamin C. It could mean the difference between a healthy child and one with birth defects. That is the astonishing conclusion of a new study by Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley. The team found that even a slight lack of vitamin C can lead to damaged sperm, boosting the chances of birth defects in offspring.In one test, a group of men with low semen levels of vitamin C showed the most damage...