The U.S. Institute of Medicine has increased the recommended levels of vitamin D that people need in order to stay healthy. Michael Irwig, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, says that while evidence suggests increasing your vitamin D intake will reduce the risk of many serious chronic diseases, we do not know definitively due to lack of randomized trials.
Recommended Amount of Vitamin D is Increased
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The Center for Faculty Excellence recently named six faculty members from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences as the newest cohort of members to the Academy of Education Scholars.
Daniel S. Carrero, MD, was officially installed as the inaugural Seymour and Ruth Perlin Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) during a ceremony Oct. 18 in the Jack Morton Auditorium at the George Washington University.
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