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WebMD Medical News — Vitamin D supplementation, shown in recent studies to help lower risk of certain cancers, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, and other conditions, may also relieve depression, according to new research. Canadian researchers say the benefit of supplementation may come in creating stores of this vital vitamin in the bloodstream to carry people through the dreary months of winter, when a lack of sunlight may lead to or worsen mood disorders — most notably seasonal affective disorder, the aptly acronymed SAD that affects some 11 million Americans.… continue reading

By Zoltan P. Rona, M.D., M.Sc. When the June 8, 2007 front page of the Toronto Globe and Mail proclaimed the cancer preventing benefits of vitamin D (a.k.a. “the sunshine vitamin” or D3), and the Canadian Cancer Society chirped in with their modest recommendation for everyone to take 1100 IU of vitamin D daily, the natural health community may have felt vindicated.… continue reading

By JOE ROJAS-BURKE PORTLAND, ORE. — Men diagnosed with prostate cancer during the summer and autumn are more likely to survive than those diagnosed in the spring and winter, researchers in Norway and Oregon have found. The findings provide more evidence exposure to sunlight may have a protective effect against cancer by increasing vitamin D levels.… continue reading

From National Geogrqphic Melanin, the brown pigment in the skin, acts as a natural sunscreen. It protects against UV, and populations in the tropics are darker skinned since there is more sunlight where they live. UV ages the skin, causes skin cancer, and–most significant to Jablonski and Chaplin’s work—-breaks down folate, essential vitamin B needed for cell division and producing new DNA.… continue reading

Queen’s University scientists have hit upon a revolutionary way to deliver agents for the treatment of skin cancer. Pharmacy student Desmond Morrow working alongside Dr Paul McCarron and Dr Ryan Donnelly from the Queen’s Medical Biology Centre have demonstrated that a novel needle free jet injection device may be a potential way of eradicating ‘difficult to treat’ skin tumours.… continue reading