Lower Vitamin D Levels = Increased Health Care Costs After studying two North-East German health cohorts, which included records from over 7,000 patients, researchers concluded that there is “an influence of vitamin D deficiency...
It is a sad state of affairs when a news piece is done on research and only the headline is discussed. What about the details? Do researchers painstakingly crunch numbers, follow diligent statistical guidelines,...
Racial Disparity There is a branch of the National Institutes of Health, the medical research agency of the United States, called the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) whose charter is...
Or… How I Found My Life’s Mission By Cedric Garland, Dr. P.H., F.A.C.E. In the summer of 1974, my brother Frank and I found ourselves in a steaming hot lecture room at Johns Hopkins...
In the beginning In early 2000, researchers from the Osteoporosis Research Center at Creighton University, Omaha, NE, decided there was enough observational research on calcium and vitamin D and cancer – but no randomized...
GrassrootsHealth is in the business of moving research into practice. After reading all the research on vitamin D and cancer, even if some of the papers received bad reviews, we conclude that yes –...
It typically takes 17-30 years for research to become practice. Why? Because a hospital would have to create this initiative from scratch – create a plan; cull the research; design software; define the data...
Is Breastmilk Broken? It is well-known that most breastfeeding babies are not getting adequate vitamin D and if a mother were to bring this topic up during a baby’s well-visit, the pediatrician would most...
Postpartum Depression According to the National Institute of Mental Health, postpartum depression affects between 7-13 percent of all mothers. Postpartum depression can occur between a few weeks after birth, all the way until a...
Research Paper Review 1,064 women received prenatal care and delivered at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) between September 2015 and December 2016. During this time frame, MUSC implemented GrassrootsHealth’s Protect Our Children...