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Vitamin D shortage risk to babies

Belfast Telegraph
By Emily Moulton Pregnant women in Northern Ireland could be putting their unborn babies at risk because they have insufficient levels of vitamin D in their ...

Vitamin D 'helps combat cancer'
The Press Association
Vitamin D can improve the survival chances of both skin and bowel cancer patients, research has shown. Two studies showed that patients with higher levels ...

Studies may encourage vitamin D testing in pregnant women
Private MD
by Brendan Missett While the positive effects of vitamin D have long been documented, medical experts are now emphasizing the importance of the so-called ...

Insufficient levels of vitamin D puts elderly at increased risk of ...
EurekAlert (press release)
A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) shows vitamin D plays a vital role in reducing the ...

Low Vitamin D Status in Older Women Linked to Increased Mortality
Alternative Health Journal
These results suggest that older women with low vitamin D status have an increased risk of death. Additional research is needed to assess the effects of ...

News from the Latest Issue of Molecular Medicine
Emediawire (press release)
Previous evidence shows that vitamin D and progesterone may each be neuroprotective on their own. In this study, Dr. Fahim Atif and colleagues researched ...

H1N1, Global Conspiracies, and Amerikan Gulags
Canada Free Press
As fall turns into winter, the days get shorter, and we receive less sunlight—which means that our bodies produce less vitamin D. It's the decrease in ...

Babies At Risk From Mothers' Vitamin D Deficiency
University of Ulster Online
Pregnant women need to pay closer attention to the vitamin D levels in their diet, University of Ulster researchers have discovered. ...

No Consensus on Optimal Vitamin D Dose
MedIndia
The new issue of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter says that while vitamin D is known to offer many benefits, there is no consensus on what level of the ...

Become resistant to H1N1, Flu and other Infections
24 Medica
Natural vitamin D is made from many different substances, one of which is cholecalciferol, also called vitamin D3. Cholecalciferol is not the whole vitamin ...

Low Vitamin D in Older Adults Raises Heart Disease Risk
eMaxHealth
Among older adults, adequate vitamin D levels are important to help protect against an increased risk of dying from heart disease, according to a new study ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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