Vitamin D Supplements May Offer Cheap And Effective Immune System Boost Against TB (Medical News Today) Scientists have shown that a single 2.5mg dose of vitamin D may be enough to boost the immune system to fight against tuberculosis (TB) and similar bacteria for at least 6 weeks. [click link for full article] [News Source]

Specter Believes No-Confidence Vote Could Push Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to Quit (WBKO-TV Bowling Green) Do Vitamins Cause Prostate Cancer? A recent study in the Journal Of The National Cancer Institute says too many vitamins could be a cause of prostate cancer. [News Source]

Dr. Gott: Don’t Overdose on Vitamin C (RedNova) By PETER GOTT, M.D. Newspaper Enterprise Association Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 78-year-old male who has been taking a daily dose of 400 IU of vitamin C for so long that I have forgotten why I take it. [News Source]

Fat food nation: How farm policy affects our health. Every five years, Congress debates and eventually passes a relatively obscure piece of legislation with enormous implications for our nation's farming and food system. [News Source]

Health care of future? It’s going to get personal. Just in the past 30 years, biomedical innovations have helped to lengthen life expectancy in the United States by four years. [News Source]

Bauxite and teenage suicide. Jamaican children, living nearer to aluminum pollution than most others, are more exposed to aluminum in the environment, absorbing it in their drinking water, in their food, through their skins and their lungs. [News Source]

Ailing, and blaming the water. Washington County residents point to 3M chemical contamination in the water, but experts agree that's not the problem. [News Source]

Living green before their time. Morninglory Farm, nestled in the hills near Wilno, Ont., has been a zero-footprint community for almost 40 years. [News Source]

Weird weather starves some W.Va. honeybees. West Virginia’s honeybees have so far escaped the mysterious colony collapse disorder that is causing bees in dozens of states to simply disappear, but here they're dying of starvation. [News Source]

Childhood years impact fertility. The conditions in which females are brought up could affect their fertility later in life, research suggests. [News Source]

Study: Vitamins May Increase Risk of Prostate Cancer (WOAI) A new study finds men who take multivitamins more than once a day may increase their risk of prostate cancer. [News Source]