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Participants in the studies were given vitamin D supplements from birth onward, for a variable time period, and were tracked for some 15 to 30 years, according to Dr. Christos Zipitis, a pediatrician with the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and lead author of the new paper, which appears online this week in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Types and doses of vitamin D supplements varied, and were not always reported, but Zipitis says supplementation was roughly 10 mcg, or 400 I.U., of vitamin D daily - the amount typically found in infant multivitamins. Based on data from three case-control...
Given the limits of the available data, however, the paper was unable to say how much vitamin D the children were getting from sources other than supplementation, or whether they were deficient to begin with. But Zipitis says children who had rickets, a bone disorder caused by extreme vitamin D deficiency, "were at a much higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes - I think about three times higher than the rest of the population, which would suggest that the higher the level of vitamin D in your body, the less likely you are to develop type 1 diabetes...
...sophomore was home for the summer when he received a shocking notification: he was facing the Administrative Board of Harvard College for academic dishonesty. Having never been taught proper citation procedures—not even in Expos—the student had included a bibliography in the first research paper of his Harvard career, but had not used correct citations in the body of the paper...
...expose students to the architectural and excavation sites that they have studied all semester. NO FREE LUNCHAlthough most Harvard students would kill for an essentially free trip to a foreign country, it’s not simply an easy ride. “We have to write a research paper due before the trip, and we’re going to be giving presentations at the sites,” says Hannah S. Yohalem ’10, a member of the class. “Much more is expected of you intellectually,” says Schlozman of another...
...University of Texas Medical Branch, did not return requests for comment. A statement from the university on behalf of Zou said that, while he agreed to the retraction, he was “disappointed” and “remains confident in the conclusion made in the published paper...