In the News

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

Lack of Vitamin D in kids linked to risks later in

~ May 5, 2009
80 percent of Canadian toddlers don't get enough of the sunshine vitamin: study shows....more

Go for the "Big D"

~ April 8, 2009
People with low levels of the sunshine vitamin are twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke within five years compared to people with higher levels....more

Vitamin D Society interviewed on The Rutherford Show – May 26, 2006
Listen to the Interview

Press Releases
directly from Vitamin D Society

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

Vitamin D Society Declares November ‘Vitamin D Awareness Month’ in Canada

~ October 31, 2007
esearch this year has left no doubt that vitamin D deficiency – which affects an estimated 97 per cent of Canadians in the winter – is nothing less than a Canadian crisis and a worldwide problem. ...more

2006: ‘The Year of Vitamin D’

~ Dec. 20, 2006
Energized by a wave of breakthrough research, a surge of media attention and two major international conferences on Canadian soil in the past 12 months, Canada’s Vitamin D Society has declared 2006 “The Year of Vitamin D.”...more