Are supplement sales in distress?

A couple of troubling headlines grabbed media attention last year, spreading from journals to major morning television to newspapers and magazines of all sizes. One headline appeared to attack the most appreciated of supplements: Omega-3s linked to prostate cancer. At about the same time, Paul Offit was gaining attention with his book Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine. Later, the Annals of Internal Medicine called multivitamins a waste