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Government funding for innovative sun safety online tool for teensThe Kids researcher Dr Shelley Gorman has received a Healthway grant to develop an online tool to promote safe sun behaviours to teenagers.
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Sun safe: balancing the risks and benefitsThe D-Light program, set up in 2014, aims to shed light on the amount of sun exposure that will promote good health in children and adolescents.
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Chronic lung disease link targeted in new research studyA link between chronic lung disease and low Vitamin D levels is the focus of a new study just started by the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.
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The value of Vitamin DResearch has shown that vitamin D levels can have an impact on many aspects of a child's health, including lung growth, language development and eating patterns
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Beneficial health effects of ultraviolet radiation: expert review and conference reportCarcinogenic effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) with reference to skin cancer are the basis of widely implemented recommendations to avoid sun exposure. Whether the benefits of "restrictive sun policies" outweigh their potential harms due to diminished beneficial effects of sunlight exposure remain a matter of controversy.
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Maternal Vitamin D Levels and the Autism Phenotype Among OffspringWe tested whether maternal vitamin D insufficiency during pregnancy is related to the autism phenotype.
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Vitamin D and atopy and asthma phenotypes in childrenThe purpose of this Review was to give an overview of the recent research into whether a lack of vitamin D contributes to the development of atopy and asthma...
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The challenges of developing and optimising an assay to measure 25-hydroxyvitamin D in salivaWe have developed an LC-MS/MS assay that accurately measures saliva 25(OH)D3 levels, which correlated with serum levels
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Characterising nitric oxide-mediated metabolic benefits of low-dose ultraviolet radiation in the mouse: a focus on brown adipose tissueNon-burning (low-dose) UVR suppresses the BAT 'whitening', steatotic and pro-diabetic effects of consuming a high-fat diet through skin release of nitric oxide
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Heat-mediated reduction of apoptosis in UVB-damaged keratinocytes in vitro and in human skin ex vivoUVB-induced p53-mediated cell cycle arrest and apoptosis are reduced in the presence of heat stress, leading to increased survival of DNA damaged cells