Saving money on Canada’s healthcare budget doesn’t necessarily mean cutting back on anything, says MP James Lunney.

Merely increasing people’s dosage of Vitamin D can keep people healthier, requiring fewer visits to either the doctor or the hospital.

For this reason, Lunney stood in the House of Commons Thursday to introduce Bill C-388, An Act to establish National Vitamin D Day in Canada.

Children born to women who had low levels of vitamin D during their pregnancy are more likely to have language problems, a new study suggests.

Insufficient levels of vitamin D during pregnancy have been linked to some health problems in children and animal offspring.

DUBLIN: Extremely high vitamin D levels have been measured in two traditional African tribes. These levels could be closer to what our body evolved for, scientists have suggested.

A new study published in the current issue of the British Journal of Nutrition examines the vitamin D levels in traditional East African populations. These people are living under similar conditions as those that shaped our genome, and might shed light on what our optimal vitamin D level is.

An Abbott Northwestern doctor wants corporate America to snap to attention, saying low levels of the inexpensive vitamin are costing billions of dollars in lost productivity and preventable health costs

Dr. Greg Plotnikoff has spent more than a decade evangelizing about the health benefits of vitamin D to his medical colleagues across the globe.

Vitamin D was in the headlines today, with many papers reporting that a quarter of all toddlers are deficient in the nutrient and that childhood rickets is on the rise. The vitamin plays several important roles in the body, including regulating the balance of nutrients needed for strong, healthy bones.

The vitamin has fallen under the spotlight as Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Dame Sally Davies, is reportedly contacting health professionals to highlight the need to prescribe vitamin D supplements to at-risk groups

Two senior paediatric pathologists say they have discovered vitamin D deficiency in a significant number of children who have died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

The doctors say that vitamin D deficiency and associated diseases such as the bone disease rickets could potentially explain deaths and injuries that are often thought to be suspicious

San Francisco, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/26/2012 -- The promising research shows the Vitamin D (which can be taken orally in tablet form) can essentially halt many viruses and in particular it can halt the Hepatitis C virus. In a healthy liver, Vitamin D aids in the production of interferons (naturally occurring proteins). The combination of Vitamin D and interferons is proven to slow or even halt the growth of Hepatitis C and other viruses.