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Give me sunshine (Albert Latner Memorial Lecture in Clinical Biochemistry)

Bill Fraser, Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia

Date/Time: Wednesday 8 February 2017

In Summer 2016, Public Health England advised the government that to protect bone and muscle health, everyone needs vitamin D equivalent to an average daily intake of 10 micrograms. Vitamin D is made in the skin by the action of sunlight and this is the main source of vitamin D for most people. In this lecture, Professor Fraser considered the role of this important vitamin in health and disease.