Vitamin C

Effect of vitamin C supplements on urinary oxalate and pH in calcium stone-forming patients

by Alessandra Calábria Baxmann Claudia de O.G. Mendonça Ita Pfeferman Heilberg 3/03/2003 Science Direct

These data suggest that vitamin C supplementation may increase urinary oxalate excretion and the risk of calcium oxalate crystallization in calcium stone-forming patients.

The Vitamin C Myth

by Patti Neighmond 2/2/06 npr

It was Noble Prize Winner Linus Pauling, a chemist, who really popularized vitamin C in the early 60s. He suggested that the vitamin, already known to protect against scurvy, was even more beneficial in mega doses. Dr. Marvin Lipman is an endocrinologist in New York and Chief Medical Advisor for the magazine Consumer Reports.

Sepsis Is A Global Killer. Can Vitamin C Be The Cure?

by npr 4/2/20

Every day, approximately 30,000 people die globally of sepsis. The condition comes about when your immune system overreacts to an infection, leading potentially to organ failure and death. There is no cure. But then in 2017, a doctor proposed a novel treatment for sepsis, a mixture that included Vitamin C, arguing it saved the lives of most of his patients. NPR's Richard Harris has been reporting on this treatment and how it's divided scientists from around the world.

Vitamin C 'gives chemotherapy a boost'

by Helen Briggs 9/2/14 BBC NEWS

Pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to run trials, as vitamins cannot be patented.

Vitamin C Fails Again As Treatment For Sepsis

by Richard Harris 24/2/21 npr

Though attention has understandably been on COVID-19 over the last year, nearly as many people in the hospital have died with a different condition: sepsis. A study now casts doubt on a once-promising treatment for this disease.