American Medical Association - People who take vitamin D supplements appear to have a lower risk of death from any cause over an average follow-up time of six-years, according to a meta-analysis of 18 previously published studies in the September 10, 2007 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Past studies have […]

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Vitamin D deficiency early in pregnancy is associated with a five-fold increased risk of preeclampsia (toxemia), even in women who report taking prenatal vitamins during pregnancy, according to a NIH-funded study reported this week in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
A serious complication of pregnancy marked by soaring […]

600,000 cases a year of breast and colon / rectal cancer could be prevented each year by adequate intake of vitamin D3.
UCSD - A new study looking at the relationship between vitamin D serum levels and the risk of colon and breast cancer across the globe has estimated the number of cases of cancer that […]

Boston University - A review article on vitamin D just released by Dr. Michael Holick, an internationally recognized expert in vitamin D, provides an overview of his pioneering work that expounds on the important role vitamin D plays in a wide variety of chronic health conditions, as well as suggesting strategies for the prevention and […]

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - Many otherwise healthy children and adolescents have a low vitamin D level, which may put them at risk for bone diseases such as rickets. African American children, children above age nine and with low dietary vitamin D intake were the most likely to have low levels of vitamin D in […]