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Continuous changes in the healthcare reimbursement criteria require executives across the industry to focus on enterprise-wide changes that have a positive effect on supply chain savings. It's a complex problem and it's easy to get distracted on one issue when having the ability to see a clear BIG picture of your entire supply chain is what can lead to the most dramatic results and return on investments. Register for MHS' webinar on November 01 (2:00pm EST) to learn about how their customers experience an average 4:1 ROI with continual savings into the millions and a positive financial impact to their bottom line through inventory reduction, avoidance of obsolete and expired inventory, improved charge capture for each patient, and physician preference card optimization. Click on http://bit.ly/UvD3nq Presenters *Michael Ferris: Co-Founder, MHS with over 30 years of supply chain management experience *Steve Basiliere: Former Director of Supply Chain Services at Saints Medical Center, Lowell, MA *Art Kozyrovicius: Finance and Procurement Systems Support at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY WHY ATTEND? Join a unique discussion with healthcare supply chain thought leaders and understand how to drive significant and sustainable supply chain operational improvements. Get a jump on making an immediate and positive impact on your bottom line as you head into 2013. Register by clicking on http://bit.ly/UvD3nq Note: Event will be online, through WebEx Please Register at http://bit.ly/UvD3nq

The second committee meeting was held August 4-5, 2009 in Washington, DC and included an Information-Gathering Workshop on August 4, 2009. The agenda for this workshop is below, along with the PowerPoint presentations that were used by the speakers during the workshop. Please note, online presentations from this meeting are subject to copyright protection. Permission from the speaker is required prior to any copying, reproducing, or rebroadcasting any portion of the speaker's presentations. Additional copyright and legal policies of The National Academies can be read in the National Academies Legal Statement.

Vitamin D content in Alaskan Arctic zooplankton, fishes, and marine mammals. David E. Kenny 1, Todd M. O'Hara, Tai C. Chen, Zhiren Lu, Xiao Tian, Michael F. Holick. Zoo Biology Volume 23 Issue 1, Pages 33 - 43 Published Online: 13 Feb 2004 Doi: 10.1002/zoo.10104

Prospective study of predictors of vitamin D status and survival in patients with colorectal cancer K Ng, B M Wolpin, J A Meyerhardt, K Wu, A T Chan, B W Hollis, E L Giovannucci, M J Stampfer, W C Willett and C S Fuchs Br J Cancer 101: 916-923; advance online publication, August 18, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6605262

Towards an adequate intake of vitamin D. An advisory report of the Health Council of the Netherlands R M Weggemans, G Schaafsma and D Kromhout Eur J Clin Nutr advance online publication, July 22, 2009; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2009.67

Low vitamin D serum level is related to severe fibrosis and low responsiveness to IFN-based therapy in genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C Salvatore Petta et al. Hepatology, Volume 9999 Issue 999A, Page NA. Published Online: 4 Dec 2009 DOI: 10.1002/hep.23489 Conclusions: G1 CHC patients had low 25(OH)D serum levels, possibly due to reduced CYP27A1 expression. Low vitamin D is linked to severe fibrosis and low SVR on IFN-based therapy. (HEPATOLOGY 2010.)

"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Important news for seniors: A daily dose of vitamin D cuts your risk of falling substantially, researchers reported today. But not just any dose will do. "It takes 700 to 1000 international units (IU) of vitamin D per day and nothing less will work," Dr. Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, who directs the Center on Aging and Mobility at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, noted in an email to Reuters Health. Those recommendations - which are higher than those by the U.S. Institute of Medicine -- are based on the results of eight studies that looked at vitamin D supplements for fall prevention among more than 2,400 adults aged 65 and older. Falls were not notably reduced with daily doses of vitamin D lower than 700 IU. An analysis of all eight studies, posted online today in the British Medical Journal, add weight to several others which have shown that vitamin D improves strength and balance, and bone health in the elderly, the researchers note."

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Wintertime vitamin D supplementation inhibits seasonal variation of calcitropic hormones and maintains bone turnover in healthy men. Viljakainen HT, Väisänen M, Kemi V, Rikkonen T, Kröger H, Laitinen EK, Rita H, Lamberg-Allardt C. J Bone Miner Res. 2009 Feb;24(2):346-52. PMID: 18847321

A randomized controlled trial of vitamin D3 supplementation for the prevention of symptomatic upper respiratory tract infections. Li-Ng M, Aloia JF, Pollack S, Cunha BA, Mikhail M, Yeh J, Berbari N. Epidemiol Infect. 2009 Mar 19:1-9. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19296870

Vitamin D and skin physiology: a D-lightful story. Holick MF, Chen TC, Lu Z, Sauter E. J Bone Miner Res. 2007 Dec;22 Suppl 2:V28-33. PMID: 18290718 doi: 10.1359/jbmr.07s211 Very few foods naturally contain vitamin D, and those that do have a very variable vitamin D content. Recently it was observed that wild caught salmon had between 75% and 90% more vitamin D(3) compared with farmed salmon. The associations regarding increased risk of common deadly cancers, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, and cardiovascular disease with living at higher latitudes and being prone to vitamin D deficiency should alert all health care professionals about the importance of vitamin D for overall health and well being. Humans have depended on sunlight for their vitamin D requirement. The impact of season, time of day, and latitude on vitamin D synthesis is well documented.(2,3) We now report that altitude also has a dramatic influence on vitamin D3 production and that living at altitudes above 3500 m permits previtamin D3 production at a time when very little is produced at latitudes below 3400 m. It was surprising that, at 27° N in Agra (169 M), little previtamin D3 production was observed. However, there was significant air pollution that caused a haze over the city. It is likely the ozone and other UVB-absorbing pollutants in the air prevented the solar UVB photons from reaching the earth's surface to produce previtamin D3.

Calcium and vitamin d supplementation decreases incidence of stress fractures in female navy recruits. Lappe J, Cullen D, Haynatzki G, Recker R, Ahlf R, Thompson K. J Bone Miner Res. 2008 May;23(5):741-9. PMID: 18433305 doi: 10.1359/jbmr.080102 Conclusions: Generalizing the findings to the population of 14,416 women who entered basic training at the Great Lakes during the 24 mo of recruitment, calcium and vitamin D supplementation for the entire cohort would have prevented 187 persons from fracturing. Such a decrease in SFx would be associated with a significant decrease in morbidity and financial costs.

Association between serum 25(OH)D concentrations and bone stress fractures in Finnish young men. Ruohola JP, Laaksi I, Ylikomi T, Haataja R, Mattila VM, Sahi T, Tuohimaa P, Pihlajamäki H. J Bone Miner Res. 2006 Sep;21(9):1483-8. doi: 10.1359/jbmr.060607 Conclusions: A lower level of serum 25(OH)D concentration may be a generally predisposing element for bone stress fractures. Considering the obvious need of additional vitamin D in prevention of stress fractures, the effects of vitamin D fortification of foods and supplementation will be subjects of interest for future research PMID: 16939407

Now a new and controversial book by an American doctor suggests that taking even higher levels of the vitamin - 10 to 15 times the recommended amounts - can work wonders. Dr James Dowd, who works at the Arthritis Institute of Michigan, has been prescribing vitamin D to people suffering from chronic disorders such as arthritis, back pain and headaches and the result, he claims, is a huge improvement in their symptoms. In his book, The Vitamin D Cure, Dr Dowd describes a number of success stories using this approach. One of his patients, Barbara, for instance, was obese, and suffered from arthritis in one leg as well as high blood pressure. As Dowd explains: "In the past I would have given her anti-inflammatory drugs, pain medication, a pill to lose weight and drug treatment for hypertension."

White Europeans could have evolved as recently as 5,500 years ago, according to research which suggests that the early humans who populated Britain and Scandinavia had dark skins for millenniums. It was only when early humans gave up hunter-gathering and switched to farming about 5,500 years ago that white skin began to be favoured, say the researchers. This is because farmed food was deficient in vitamin D, a vital nutrient. Humans can make this in their skin when exposed to sunlight, but dark skin is much less efficient at it.