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KARACHI (APP) – A significant majority of Pakistani women, in child bearing age group report with high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D (Vitamin D deficiency) and osteomalacia (weak bones), said Prof Ayesha Khan. The senior gynecologist at a seminar held under Active Mother Active Nation (AMAN) campaign, referred to different research studies published in prestigious journals of international repute showing high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in South Asian women of child bearing age.… continue reading

Vitamin D The form of vitamin D most talked about is the one known as Vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol, which is produced when the skin is exposed to sunshine. Cholecalciferol is actually not a vitamin; it’s a prehormone which can be metabolized into a secosteroid hormone called calcitriol.… continue reading

By drericchannd http://drericchan.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/top-5-swine-flu-prevention/ With Labor Day holiday today, the health news that has dominated not only the Health section of the newspaper, but often the Business section as well as the front page, is the possibility of swine flu re-emerging as a threat.… continue reading

http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16940 In a new study, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D3 and calcium would prevent 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the US and Canada.… continue reading

long Lani Hossain, Cavalier Daily Senior Writer Featured / Health & Science http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2009/09/09/the-tanning-cancer-and-vitamin-d-ebate/ Vitamin D does not rain from the sky, nor does it travel on the beams of sunlight to quench a thirsty body of its vitamin needs. It is, however, one of the few positive products of tanning.… continue reading