Pauling’s Work on Swine Flu

The current concern over the world-wide spread of swine flu virus brings to mind research that Dr. Linus Pauling conducted on this very subject, some thirty-three years ago.
Pauling’s interest in swine flu seems to have been stoked by a convergence of two factors: 1) mounting fears over a potential swine flu epidemic that first emerged [...]

Linus Pauling, Vitamin C and the AIDS Crisis

“Many orthomolecular substances are so free from toxicity that they show beneficial effects over a 10,000-fold range of concentrations. Yet if you take even ten times the amount of aspirin that many patients take, for example, you’d be dead; hundreds of people do die every year from aspirin poisoning. And all of the other major [...]

Clarifying Three Widespread Quotes

When we find ourselves with a few spare moments, one of our favorite pastimes is conducting Google Blogsearch queries for the term “Linus Pauling.”  Typically we come across a few of the more recent posts that we ourselves have published, catch up with the latest news from The Linus Pauling Quartet and sometimes unearth interesting [...]

Cancer and Vitamin C Redux

The conversation concerning the possible use of vitamin C in the treatment of cancer continues to gather momentum. 
As we’ve noted before on the PaulingBlog, the possibility that ascorbic acid might be a useful tool in the fight against cancer was a topic of intense interest to Linus Pauling and a handful of his [...]

Vitamin C and Cancer Back in the News

The National Institutes of Health news release of Monday August 4th, titled “Vitamin C Injections Slow Tumor Growth,” (which, a day later, was the subject of this article in the Washington Post) is of particular interest to those familiar with the life and work of Linus Pauling.
Though he made important contributions to numerous disciplines of [...]