Study Says A Trial On Vitamin Supplementation Among Preschoolers Did Not Substantiate Earlier Claim Of 30% Reduction

Two so-called magic bullets of the international health community’s armoury — pre-school vitamin A supplementation, assumed to reduce child mortality by a quarter and intestinal deworming, assumed to improve child nutrition, growth, and cognitive development — have been shown to have no significant effect on child mortality. This was revealed in one of the largest trials ever: