Supplements: modern miracles? 
Our news editor, Lisa Schnirring, joked not long ago that The Physician and Sportsmedicine should run a "supplement of the month" column.  If we did, filling the column wouldn't be a problem-narrowing the choices would be.  You might have read this year about SAMe (S-adenosylmethionine), whey protein, glutamine, olive leaf extract, and glyconutrients, to name a few.  But the story would tend to follow a standard pattern: Claims of "Great Benefit X" would usually give way to "Inconsistent Evidence of Y" or "Side Effect Z," and the various views would be supported by enthusiastic, cautious, or cautionary statements by proponents and skeptics.