Junior doctors face tougher competition this year after a bid to give UK-trained medics priority in applying for jobs fails.

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Sober movie star ROBERT DOWNEY JR. has a new pill addiction - but this time it’s all vitamins and minerals. The once-troubled actor has famously turned his back on …

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QHow can I know where vitamins and supplements are made, or if they are pure? When I look at the labels, most of them read “Distributed by,” followed by a company name and location. They don’t tell where the pills were actually made, or by whom. I don’t trust products made abroad right now.

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Not many papaya trees in the fields around Champaign-Urbana to be sure, but a University of Illinois professor was in the middle of the event when scientists unveiled a landmark draft of the papaya’s gene map this week. The papaya genome already is revealing new information about angiosperms – or flowering plants, a category that goes far beyond the melonlike tropical fruit rich in vitamins A …

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More and more parents are reaching for multi-vitamins to fill the five fruit and veg a day gap. But many will be alarmed to learn the real contents of these supposedly healthy food supplements. Our expert sort the good from the bad

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Operating theatres are being thrown into chaos and operations cancelled because of broken, missing or dirty surgical instruments, surgeons say.

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Devotees of raw milk suggest that pasteurization kills healthy enzymes, vitamins and proteins that boost energy and immune systems, and aid digestion. The FDA says the fad is dangerous. The Tribune’s Stephen J. Hedges reports.

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Health officials are investigating more than 180 reports of illness in people who took dietary supplements containing toxic levels of the mineral selenium.

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The company’s Cococin ingredient is made up of freeze dried water coconut solids, which is said to be rich in essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

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If it weren’t for British biochemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Americans might not be obsessed with gobbling down their daily vitamins.

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