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Social media is land-mined with reports that taking vitamin C tablets may help you prevent COVID-19. Like claims that you can make $83,000 in one month sitting in front of your computer, the vitamin C stuff is falsified. In fact, there is no scientific evidence that any supplement—vitamin C, vitamin D, prebiotics, or probiotics—can help

Vitamin D deficiency can be serious, if left untreated. Insufficient intake can cause diseases such as rickets in children, and bone pain caused by a condition called osteomalacia in adults. It is therefore imperative to get enough of the vitamin. Between late March/early April to the end of September, most people can get all the

Many women who experience persistent vaginal itch or discharge assume they have vaginal thrush (vulvolvaginal candidiasis). Treatments for thrush are available without a prescription. Since having a vaginal condition can be embarrassing, it’s sometimes preferable to buy creams or tablets from the chemist and treat yourself. But this also means some women may be using

Benylin’s range of cough medicines all contain ‘IDENTICAL’ ingredients – despite being marketed differently The 46-year-old, AKA the MoneySavingExpert, took to Twitter on Thursday Warned customers not to believe that the £4.99 tablets offer ‘something extra’ Previously, Lewis urged people not to pay inflated price of branded medicines Benylin’s range of cough medicines have been

(HealthDay)— Are tablets, smartphones and laptops robbing Americans of shut-eye? Absolutely, said researchers who found that the unending entertainments and the light the devices emit are a powerful, slumber-killing combo. The finding comes from a small analysis of nine otherwise healthy adults in their 20s. Their sleep was tracked after five straight nights of unrestricted

A new Physiological Reports study reveals that evening use of light-emitting tablets can induce delays in desired bedtimes, suppress secretion of melatonin (the hormone that regulates sleep and wakefulness), and impair next-morning alertness. Nine healthy adults participated in a randomized and counterbalanced study comparing 5 consecutive evenings of unrestricted use of light-emitting tablet computers versus