vitamins

Whether you're looking for heartburn relief, aspirin, condoms, vitamins or even shampoo and lipstick, shopping at a drugstore can be daunting. There are so many choices that the easiest option can be buying a brand you know. But drugstore markups can lead to serious overspending. At the very...

Three major marketers of children's vitamins sold under the Disney and Marvel Heroes logos have agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission $2.1 million to settle charges that the companies falsely claimed their supplements promote healthy brain and eye development in children. The FTC charged...

Blackstone Group (BX) and Chinese food company Bright Food Group plan to bid for GNC Holdings, Bloomberg News reported. The purchase of vitamin and nutrition-supplement retail chain GNC could be announced as soon this month, Bloomberg News said without naming its sources. GNC hired investment...

Coca-Cola's attempt to put a halt to a lawsuit alleging that it's misleading consumers with the marketing of its Vitaminwater line of drinks was shot down by a federal judge in New York. The Center for Science in the Public Interest and other parties sued Coca-Cola last year, alleging the...

An international group of vitamin manufacturers that allegedly carried a price-fixing conspiracy over the course of 12 years has agreed to pay over $25 million to settle a class action lawsuit by 22 states and the District of Columbia. The suit accuses the vitamin makers of flouting state and...

Drugstores offer a lot more than a place to fill a prescription for monthly meds. Many offer surprisingly competitive prices on everything from ice cream to toothpaste. Here's a list of the top 10 deals you can find at drugstores.

Even if you're not sick or fighting a cold, you may have a use for the vitamin-rich powder packets known as Emergen-C. How so? Mixed drinks! At least that's what the maker of Emergen-C wants you to think. The manufacturer is giving away free samples of Emergen-C (while supplies last) with drink...

Nearly 20 years ago the Apple Newton became the first device to be called a PDA, 14 years ago Nokia provided a newly mobile world with the 9000 Communicator, which was the first phone with PDA functions. Since then we have quickly become a nation that relies on our phones to help us remember...

Get a free, customized vitamin plan based specifically on your health when you click on the image at right. No purchase is required -- though they gently suggest you buy vitamins -- so this is useful if you already take vitamins or are interested in starting.

Do you pop vitamin pills daily to keep yourself healthy? If you do you're likely in the majority, because half of adults take vitamins daily. But are you taking the right ones and in the right amount? If you don't know, you could be spending too much and possibly even causing your body harm....