Intravenous vitamin C.(The War on Cancer)(research analysis)

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

Vitamin C is in the news again. A study carried out by a research team from the Harvard School of Public Health and published July 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine (Fawzi, WW, 2004) showed that a multivitamin supplement that included vitamin C significantly slowed the onset of AIDS and provided an "effective, low-cost means of delaying the initiation of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected women." The total cost of the treatment was estimated by the researchers to be about $15 per year. Here is yet another demonstration of the astonishing power of food supplements, ...

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