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Vitamin D supplements crucial in our dark Edmonton winters Chris Zdeb The Edmonton Journal Ed Kaiser, The Journal Pediatrician Dr. Raphael Sharon examines three-month-old Mahamoud Hamdan. According to Sharon and other experts, babies in sun-starved northern cities like Edmonton should be given 800 IU of vitamin D daily.… continue reading

Washington (IANS): A must for good health, vitamin D also needs activation to function optimally within the human body. Until recently, this activation was thought to happen in the kidneys, but a new University of Iowa study has found that the activation can also take place in lung airway cells.… continue reading

(HealthDay News) — Vitamin D may directly affect thyroid function, according to research in a preclinical animal model published online Oct. 16 in Endocrinology. Alexander Misharin of the UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles and colleagues tested the role of vitamin D in a mouse model of Graves’ disease, in which hyperthyroidism is induced by immunization with an adenovirus encoding the thyrotropin receptor.… continue reading

By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) and current treatment recommendations for correcting the deficiency are “inadequate,” conclude clinicians from The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland. They reviewed the charts of 262 children with CF patients treated at Johns Hopkins between 2003 and 2006 and found that vitamin D deficiency has declined but is still high; the prevalence was 86 percent in 2003 and 46 percent in 2006.… continue reading

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , THE JERUSALEM POST Israel is a sunny country, and exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet light helps the skin produce vitamin D. So it’s ridiculous to insist that all the country’s milk products be fortified with the vitamin to take advantage of its many benefits, right?… continue reading