Since first described almost a century ago, vitamin D preparations have been successfully used as a public health intervention to prevent nutritional rickets. In this manuscript, we document the ...
But the childhood disease of rickets is on the rise again, nutritionists have warned. They say it is because a generation of inactive children are not getting enough sunlight and not consuming ...
June 3, 2024 — Healthy adults under the age of 75 are unlikely to benefit from taking more than the daily intake of vitamin D recommended by the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and do not require ...
The major therapeutic uses of vitamin D include treatment of nutritional or metabolic rickets; osteomalacia, particularly in the setting of chronic renal failure; hypoparathyroidism; and osteoporosis.
The data published in The Lancet is being heralded as a big breakthrough in the treatment of cervical cancer and uses readily available chemotherapy drugs, given to patients before they receive ...
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