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Veiled And Dark-skinned People Should Have Vitamin D Levels Checked (Medical News Today)
Dark-skinned and veiled infants, children and adults should be screened annually for vitamin D deficiency, and vitamin D supplementation should be provided to those at-risk in this population, a finding published in The Medical Journal of Australia recommends.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
Low vitamin D may make kids’ asthma worse (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Vitamin D deficiency, which can occur even in “sun-replete” areas of the world, may lead to more severe asthma and allergies in childhood, researchers warn.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Vitamins: Which supplements help and which are a waste of money? (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
You know all that extra vitamin C you’ve been taking to keep from getting the sickness everyone’s been passing around at your Petri dish of an office? It all got flushed down the toilet - literally. Figuratively, so did all the money you spent on vitamin C supplements.
Source: lubbockonline.com
(AFX UK Focus) 2009-04-22 19:50 Vitamin K may boost effects of cancer pill Nexavar (Interactive Investor)
CHICAGO, April 22 (Reuters) - Vitamin K may enhance the effects of the cancer drug Nexavar, which may allow patients to take lower, less-toxic doses, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. They said combining vitamin K with the cancer pill Nexavar or sorafenib sold by Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc and German drugmaker Bayer AG helped it kill liver and pancreatic cancer in human cell cultures. “K …
Source: www.iii.co.uk
Vitamin D levels linked to asthma severity (PhysOrg)
New research provides evidence for a link between vitamin D insufficiency and asthma severity.
Source: www.physorg.com
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Type of vitamin B1 could treat common cause of blindness (EurekAlert!)
( University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston ) University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that a form of vitamin B1 could become a new and effective treatment for one of the world’s leading causes of blindness, uveitis.
Source: www.eurekalert.org
Keeping your bones healthy: Osteoporosis can be prevented and treated, doctors say (The Kalamazoo Gazette)
Bones are living things. And if you care for them, feed them and nurture them, they will usually serve you well throughout your life.
Source: www.mlive.com
Vitamin K With Sorafenib Active Against Pancreas Cancer, Liver Cancer (Medical News Today)
A combination of sorafenib and vitamin K had an effect in vitro on both human pancreas cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma, according to researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. Data from the two studies were presented at the AACR 100th Annual Meeting 2009 in Denver.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
Vitamin B3 may reduce acrylamide formation: Study (Food Navigator USA)
“The effectiveness of vitamin B3 was eventually corroborated in fried potato strips, thus suggesting its great potential for application in food processing to decrease acrylamide formation,” wrote the authors, led by Xiaohui Zeng from the University of Hong Kong.
Source: www.foodnavigator-usa.com