Three Americans won the Nobel prize in medicine for their research work on telomeres, the endcaps of chromosomes that protect genetic material from being erased. Understanding that mechanism is enlightening scientists on aging and disease. Nutritional supplement companies should pay special attention to the research that merited the award.

With public attention shifting to the health of teenagers — steroid use, obesity, etc. — the supplement industry has not been heard loud enough. Who will speak up?

According to this report from the Carlisle, Pennsylvania newspaper The Sentinel, Boiling Springs High School Student Andrew Figueiredo was suspended from school for taking 3 dietary supplement pills at lunch in the cafeteria. South Middleton School District administrators took the position that Andrew was taking medication without authorization and suspended him for 10 days. [...]