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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Vitamin D Testing: What the Government Giveth, It Taketh Away

Category: Laboratory News

New Study to Research if Supplements of Vitamin D, Fish Oil Reduce Health Risks
With the volume of Vitamin D testing skyrocketing in clinical laboratories across the nation, leave it to government bureaucrats to work at counter purposes to each other. With one hand, the federal Medicare program is proposing to restrict coverage guidelines and reimbursement for Vitamin D testing to Medicare patients. With another hand, the federally-funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding a large, multi-year study to assess the effect Vitamin D supplements and fish oil have in reducing health risks! Click here for the rest of the article...

Note from Andrea: leave it to the government to screw it up! I take Vitamin D every day and feel great!

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