Northern Irish women have only half the recommended iodine levels at critical stage of pregnancy

Pregnant Northern Irish women do not get enough iodine through their diet and do not know enough about how to address their deficiency, according to preliminary research presented at the Society…

Women using IVF ‘half as likely to conceive if vitamin D deficient’

Vitamin D deficiency has previously been linked to reduced fertility in mice. Now, a new study of women undergoing IVF finds that this deficiency can also affect human fertility.

Study links vitamin D deficiency to ‘all-cause mortality and cancer prognosis’

A new study finds a link between low vitamin D levels and all-cause mortality – including CVD and cancer. Researchers say the deficiency may even be linked to cancer prognosis.

Screening For Vitamin D Deficiency In At-Risk Populations Recommended By Experts

The Endocrine Societyhas released “Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.” The clinical practice guideline (CPG) is published in the July 2011 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), a publication of The Endocrine Society…

The Importance Of Monitoring Vitamin D Levels In All Patients With Cirrhosis

Vitamin D deficiency is a well reported complication in chronic cholestatic liver disease such as primary biliary cirrhosis. While the prevalence and treatment of this deficiency has been addressed in many articles over the last decades, little is known of the vitamin D status in alcoholic liver cirrhosis…