SUNSTYLE Event Was A Success

As more studies focus on the health benefits of vitamin D, many questions regarding deficiency and the “sunshine vitamin” are being raised. To help explain vitamin D a bit better, Jared M. Skowron, who specializes in pediatrics and the treatment of autistic spectrum disorders in children, created a list of ...

U.S. researchers have concluded lower blood concentrations of vitamin D increase the likelihood of hip fracture among menopausal women by up to 70 percent. In the study, which was published in the Aug. 19 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers followed 800 women between the ages of 50 ...

An in-depth review of current research on the health effects of vitamin D is being published as the proceedings of the late 2007 conference “Vitamin D and Health in the 21st Century: An Update,” convened by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The review will appear as an August 2008 ...

A recent study suggests that the number of lives saved by people who double their sun exposure might be 10 times higher than the number of fatal skin cancers that could result.The study—conducted by researchers at the Institute for Cancer Research in Oslo, Norway, and published in the Proceedings of ...

A case reported as the British Medical Journal’s “Lesson Of The Week” vividly illustrates why vitamin D is called the "sunshine vitamin." It recounts the severe health problems experienced by a woman of Pakistani origin whose doctors took several years to diagnose severe vitamin D deficiency. The 53-year-old woman had ...