Dr David Grimes

We normally synthesise vitamin D by the action of the sun on our skin during the summer, and the reserves built up during this time will la...

A conference on the subject of Vitamin D took place in London on May 23-25 2014. It was a big conference with presenters and delegates from...

The generally held view is that we are witnessing an epidemic of obesity which will lead to countless deaths from diabetes and heart dis...

White skin - Neanderthal inheritance My younger son Daniel pointed out to me an error in my last post, the topic of which was a recen...

Rickets is a disease of children. Formation of bone is impaired so that the bones become soft. When the child starts to walk the bones of t...

Should there be population screening for coeliac disease ? This Post follows two previous posts on the subject of Coeliac Disease h...

How common is coeliac disease? This follows from the previous post  “ Is there really an epidemic of coeliac disease?” The chara...