The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the biggest in the country's history, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

Many Codex standards and guidelines are good, but many are not. The latter ignore detrimental synergistic effects on humans, animals, insects, and the environment in general. Most important of all, they reflect the modern-day scientific hubris that thinks it knows more than Mother Nature.

A study of 2,044 older Japanese adults found that those with lower vitamin C levels in their blood plasma tended to have a lower volume of gray matter in their brains, as well as lower connectivity among a collection of brain regions known as the default mode network.

The American College of Physicians, an organization comprised of internal medicine physicians, recently published a paper calling for stricter regulations around the manufacturing and marketing of dietary supplements.