Some vitamin D tests may give misleading results despite progress made in recent years to improve the quality of these assays, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Dr Anjali Kumar explains why vitamin D deficiency is extremely common among women and how a simple blood test can help detect ...

It's Wellness Wednesday, and this week’s focus is on vitamin D and its role in overall health. Many people assume they’re getting enough during the summer months, but that’s not always the case. We ...

Beyond its effect on calcium and bones, vitamin D is also linked to brain function, mood, and stress regulation, so it is ...

Physicians are frequently ordering the wrong test for vitamin D levels, and two advocates are calling for closer observation and better IT utilization to solve the problem. An article in the January ...

copper vitamin D vitamin B12 selenium vitamin E When a person gets their test kit, they must register it online, follow instructions to collect a sample, and return it for testing. Once the lab ...

Lauren Silva, a freelance writer in New York City, believes in feeling good in your body and making that experience accessible to everyone across generations. The proof is in her ever-piling browser ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers determined the impact of vitamin D status in preventing all-cause acute respiratory infection (ARI) and severe acute respiratory ...

Serum vitamin D levels are significantly lower and the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency is significantly higher in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) compared with controls, although a causal ...