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vitamin A [retinol] (AQUASOL A)
We list this drug as a Do Not Use drug because levels beyond typical dietary intake can cause hip fractures and birth defects.

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Vitamins and Minerals [hide all summaries]
One promotional strategy of supplement suppliers is to make people worry about whether they are getting enough nutrients. But do most people really need to take vitamins and minerals to supplement their diets? Or are they a waste of money? Are there better alternatives to taking supplements to ensure adequate nutrition? This section will attempt to answer these questions and help you sort through the fact and fiction surrounding nutritional supplements.

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Dietary Supplements Offer Little to No Benefit and May Be Harmful [hide all summaries]
(October 2012)
The article reviews current evidence on 16 dietary supplements based on a large number of studies testing their effectiveness.
Vitamins and Minerals: A User’s Guide [hide all summaries]
(August 2010)
Vitamin and mineral supplements are a booming business in this country. Many people are misled by advertising into thinking that taking a supplement will help get rid of many of their health problems. But this is not the case.
Should Vitamins Be Regulated As Drugs? [hide all summaries]
(June 2010)
Increasing knowledge about the risks and, in some cases, lack of benefits of vitamins suggests that by classifying vitamins as drugs, companies would be forced to give patients much more information than they now provide and would have to back medical claims for efficacy and safety with evidence. The article also provides recent evidence of previously unknown harms from certain vitamins and updates on current knowledge about the 13 most commonly used vitamins.
Drug-Induced Eye Toxicity: 62 Drugs That Can Cause Eye Disease [hide all summaries]
(April 2008)
This article, based on a recent review in Drug Safety, lists 62 prescription drugs that can cause eye disease. The range of drug-induced eye diseases includes diseases of the eyelids, glaucoma, cataracts, retinal damage and optic nerve damage. As is true for drug-induced diseases in other parts of the body, you should consider newly developed eye symptoms beginning shortly after starting a new medication to be possibly drug-induced and consult a physician.
Multivitamins with Minerals: Use in Healthy Older Adults Shows No Benefit [hide all summaries]
(December 2005)
Research published in the August 6, 2005 British Medical Journal found that the daily use of a multivitamin with a mineral supplement by people over 65 years of age did not did not affect numbers of infections, use of health care services, quality of life, number of antibiotic prescriptions, or hospital admissions compared to an inactive placebo.
Vitamins: Useful or Harmful? [hide all summaries]
(November 2005)
Your best source of vitamins is a healthy balanced diet. Use the chart in this article for examples of vitamin-rich foods. Use vitamins only when they are necessary and in consultation with your physician.
Review of Adverse Effects and Contraindications of Various Dietary Supplements Used for Weight Loss [hide all summaries]
(December 2002)
Ephedra, or ma huang, the natural form of the stimulant ephedrine, the most infamous and dangerous drug found in dietary supplements sold for weight loss, is at last beginning to receive the negative notoriety it deserves. Ephedra causes heart attacks and strokes because of its ability to raise blood pressure and heart rate. Article discusses the risk of other dietary supplements.

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Letter to the Food and Drug Administration regarding their final regulations on dietary supplements and their definition of adverse effects of pregnancy. (HRG Publication #1507) [hide all summaries]
Now, the same agency seems to have thrown caution to the wind and appears willing to endanger unborn babies by pretending that medical conditions such as morning sickness and edema of pregnancy are not diseases, thereby allowing the marketing of dietary supplements/herbals that have not been tested for safety.

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