A good vitamin D status is beneficial both in cancer prevention and in the prognosis of several cancers, according to a new research review.

A new lab test can identify which children with CAD deficiency, a rare neurometabolic disorder, are likely to benefit from a nutritional supplement containing uridine. One of the five standard nucleosides which make up DNA and RNA, uridine has dramatically improved the lives of other children with the condition.

Doctors in the Netherlands say there appears to be a relationship between serious coronavirus complications and patients with a low level of vitamin K.

Pregnant women who take supplements containing choline, a B vitamin, may reduce the negative impact of viral respiratory infections such as the coronavirus on their babies, say American researchers.

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic Florida are to test whether vitamin C and zinc help reduce the likelihood of a newly diagnosed coronavirus patient being hospitalized. They say they also want to see if the micronutrients can reduce the severity and duration of symptoms.

Vitamin C and zinc tablets are to be distributed to elderly and disabled people in Madurai, India, to help them build immunity against the coronavirus.

A new study by Japanese researchers suggests the natural amino acid arginine may help treat inherited neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease.

As evidence builds that coronavirus patients with vitamin D deficiency are much more likely to experience severe clinical outcomes, urgent trials in Europe and North America are underway to evaluate whether vitamin D could be used to treat or prevent the disease.