{
  "id": 3738807,
  "title": "Vitamin C won’t prevent most colds, but it may do one small thing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/vitamin-c-wont-prevent-most-colds-but-it-may-do-one-small-thing",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-27T10:38:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily Health",
    "slug": "sciencedaily-health",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260827010507.htm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The belief that huge doses of vitamin C can ward off colds was popularized more than 50 years ago by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Since then, larger studies have found that vitamin C does not prevent most people from catching a cold, although regularly taking it may make severe symptoms slightly shorter or milder.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}