SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing regulations requiring the sponsor of any drug, including a biological product, or device marketing application (applicant), to submit certain information concerning the compensation to, and financial interests of, any clinical investigator conducting certain clinical studies.
The B Vitamins are considered to be the âstressâ vitamins, based on the perceptions that these vitamins are more rapidly depleted in people who are more âstressedâ. Multivitamins like Stresstabs trade on this image. Among the B vitamins, B12 is often held out as as an almost miraculous energy booster.
March 15, 2005 -- Vitamin E harms more than it helps, a large study shows. Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant, thought to clear the body of harmful oxygen compounds called free radicals. By soaking up free radicals, researchers hoped that vitamin E would prevent cancer and heart disease. That doesn't happen, finds Eva Lonn, MD, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and colleagues.