Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, the medical scientists who housekeep for vitamins have an unmanageable lot of charges. At present, for example, chemists believe that there are eight varieties ...

In today's world, vitamin supplements are everywhere, and it seems like there's one for just about everything. But are all these pills and powders really necessary, or could some actually be doing ...

Vitamins and minerals are essential for our health but they are nutrients our bodies can’t produce on their own – so we must ...

To the University of Chicago last week went 400 of the country’s scientists for a meeting devoted to one subject alone: vitamins. Although the symposium dealt mostly with highly technical laboratory ...

Ascorbic acid, the scientific name for vitamin C, supports immune function. Eating ascorbic acid-rich foods helps your immune system work properly.

It all started with a chemist proposing the existence of a compound he called protein. For more than a century, many scientists contributed to the discovery of vitamins, including (from left) Gerardus ...

While its reputation is at times dismissed as folklore or the efforts of orange juice marketing campaigns, vitamin C’s ...