Symposium on Vitamin C, 15th September 2017; Part of the Linus Pauling Institute’s 9th International Conference on Diet and Optimum Health

Stephen Lawson LPI Administrative Officer Diet and Optimum Health Conference

P Designated by the National Institutes of Health as a p ver since the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine moved from Palo Alto, California, to Corvallis, Oregon, to become the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, one of our highest priorities has been to build a state-of-the-art research facility to house the Institute and serve as a high-profile working memorial for...

The Diet and Optimum Health Conference

w T hat are the most pressing health problems that will face our society in the coming decades? How can the Linus Pauling Institute contribute to the resolution of society’s most pressing health problems? Which knowledge-based tools and skills will be necessary for LPI to successfully address our most pressing health problems in innovative ways, especially as they involve LPI’s research, outr...

Vitamin C supplementation and the common cold--was Linus Pauling right or wrong?

In 1970 Linus Pauling claimed that vitamin C prevents and alleviates the episodes of the common cold. Pauling was correct in concluding from trials published up till then, that in general vitamin C does have biological effects on the common cold, but he was rather over-optimistic as regards the size of benefit. His quantitative conclusions were based on a single placebo-controlled trial on scho...

Pakistan International Biennial Conference on ‘Ramadan and Health’ (9th – 11th October 2015; 26th – 28th Dhul Hijjah 1436 H)

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Fourth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health.

The Fourth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health was held September 18, 2007 at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. The symposium was organized by the Tea Council of the U.S.A. and cosponsored by the American Cancer Society, American College of Nutrition, American Medical Women’s Association, American Society for Nutrition, and the Linus Pauling Institute ...