In the News
Northerners lack vitamin D intake: official
~ December 3, 2010
A new report that says most Canadians are getting enough vitamin D is being disputed in Nunavut, where a senior health official says a shortage of winter sunlight is just one reason most people lack the sunshine vitamin....more
'D' Levels More Important than IUs: Scientists
~ November 30, 2010
TORONTO, Nov. 29 /CNW/ - Vitamin D blood levels - and not vitamin D intake itself - should be the focus of media coverage of this Tuesday's anticipated Institutes of Medicine (IOM) revised North American vitamin D recommendations, according to a worldwide coalition of 41 vitamin D researchers.
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Health agency to test link between flu, vitamin D
~ July 27, 2009
By screening infected blood, researchers hoping to find new ways to fight the virus...more
Eastern Health ends vitamin D testing
~ July 8, 2009
Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority said Monday it won't do any more general testing for vitamin D because its lab is being overwhelmed....more
Vitamin D: Are you getting enough?
~ July 6, 2009
Warm up to the sunshine vitamin or risk bone-softening diseases...more
Vitamin D pioneer Michael Holick receives Linus Pa
~ May 17, 2009
Dr. Michael Holick, a professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at the Boston University School of Medicine who has revolutionized the understanding of vitamin D and its role in disease prevention, this week received the $50,000 Linus Pauling Institute Prize for Health Research....more
Vitamin D Society interviewed on The Rutherford Show – May 26, 2006
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Press Releases
directly from Vitamin D Society
Call to D*action for Vitamin D awareness month
~ November 18, 2011
Leading Canadian medical organizations endorse Scientists Call to D*action for Vitamin D awareness month...more
November is Canadian Vitamin D Awareness Month
~ November 1, 2010
More than 90 percent of Canadians are at risk for negative health outcomes because they will become vitamin D deficient this winter. That's why Canada's Vitamin D Society is recognizing November as its 4th Annual Vitamin D Awareness Month....more
Vitamin D Deficiency Continues To Affect Millions of Canadians
~ November 4, 2008
Vitamin D Society Reminds Canadians to Get their Levels Checked As Part of 'Vitamin D Awareness Month' in Canada...more
News Archives
- Northerners lack vitamin D intake: official
- 'D' Levels More Important than IUs: Scientists
- Health agency to test link between flu, vitamin D
- Eastern Health ends vitamin D testing
- Vitamin D: Are you getting enough?
- Vitamin D pioneer Michael Holick receives Linus Pa
- Lack of Vitamin D in kids linked to risks later in
- Go for the "Big D"
- Wake Up To More D
- Let the Sunshine In
- 'The Ignored Vitamin'
- More Good News About Vitamin D
- Lack Of Vitamin D Could Spell Heart Trouble
- Raise 'D' to 2,000 IU Daily: 18 Experts
- Good reasons for taking vitamin D
- Vitamin D, influenza link to be studied
- More vitamin D could mean fewer cancers: study
- Cancer society calls for major vitamin D trial
- Canadian pediatricians recommend more vitamin D fo
- Vitamin D can lower risk of death by 7 per cent
- Take vitamin D to reduce cancer risk: CCS
- Researchers See Link Between Vitamin D, Autism
- Boning Up on the Sunshine Vitamin
- Northern Babies at Greater Risk of Rickets: Study
- Vitamin D Casts Cancer Prevention in New Light
