Dietary supplements — vitamins, minerals, botanicals and probiotics — are more popular than ever. Do they make a difference?

These include: Do multi-vitamins work? The problem with studies tends to be that they use different products and doses, and ...

"People are often given the impression that supplements work better than they really do." Still, more than half of American adults have taken them. So we looked at the evidence for the top five ...

Where does that leave us, then – if multivitamins don’t provably work but we’re unlikely to be getting enough micronutrients from our food? First off, focusing on the bits we’re at risk of ...

Do I really need 588% of the FDA’s recommended daily amount of vitamin B6? Probably not. Ditto 1787% of vitamin E.” “The comfort factor in taking a daily multivitamin is that on any given ...

“The FDA does not approve dietary supplements or their product labeling before they are sold to the public,” Dr. Cara Welch, director of the FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Programs in ...