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COMMENTS: No Better Than a Placebo
The publication of research that proves that a nutritional supplement combination of selenium and Vitamins C & E is ineffective in preventing prostate cancer inspired both NBC's Robert Bazell and CBS' Jon LaPook to add that particular cancer to heart disease and Alzheimer's Disease on the list of illnesses that the $8bn-a-year multivitamin industry has so far been found useless to ward off. "This is just the latest in a string of disappointing news about vitamin pills," commented LaPook. "Such failures of the large vitamin trials are becoming a familiar story," was Bazell's take.
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