They Had to Stop This Vitamin C Trial Early

Earlier this month, one of the most rigorous trials ever run on a vitamin was stopped early — because the people getting the vitamin were dying faster than the people getting nothing [1]. It was vitamin C. High-dose, into the vein, in patients with severe burns. The idea sounded right: burns flood the body with damage, vitamin C mops up that damage, so give plenty. It proved the opposite. Deaths…