In this newsletter, another family is destroyed, and Dr. Jane Smith (real name), Deputy Editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) refuses to rectify the tragic failure of the review process made by the BMJ almost 50 years ago. Will theJournal of the American Medical Association(JAMA) do better? Will the editors of JAMA cover up their mistake as the BMJ editors did?
Subject: PLEASE HELP MY FAMILY!
Dr. Cannell:
My Name is Michelle Gonzalez and I am a 20-year-old mother of one. My husband Miguel and I have known each other since early childhood and grew up together in a small farming town in Southern Colorado. We are a very tight knit community where everyone knows everyone. April 28th 2010, my daughter Maria was born. It was the happiest day of my life.
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Announcements
New Vitamin D Council website nearing completion
Our new website will have a lot more information on vitamin D - including vitamin D and specific health conditions, will be much more user-friendly, and will have a completely new design. Look for it this coming May!
New landmark vitamin D study from GrassrootsHealth
Vitamin D Council would like to congratulate Leo L. Baggerly and Christine B. French of GrassrootsHealth, Cedric F. Garland of UC San Diego, and Robert P. Heaney of Creighton University, Nebraska on the completion of their noteworthy vitamin D study: Vitamin D Supplement Doses and Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in the Range Associated with Cancer Prevention.
Fast facts
A study found that about 1/4 of all otherwise normal infants have evidence of infantile rickets while they are still in the womb.
Mahon P, et al. Low maternal vitamin D status and fetal bone development: cohort study. J Bone Miner Res. 2010 Jan;25(1):14-9.
It is likely that tens of thousands of infants are being sent home from the hospital with multiple fractures because no one has ever done a study looking for asymptomatic fractures.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets: Another Shattered Family
A couple's son with intrauterine rickets is mistakenly diagnosed with "Shaken Baby Syndrome."
Child Abuse? Or Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets?
A mother is told to testify against her husband and threatened with never seeing her daughter again after she and her husband are wrongfully accused of child abuse.
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