Children's Bone Health and Calcium: For Researchers and Health Care Providers

• Bone Health Information for You and Your Patients
  CD-ROM from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Includes patient education materials, professional education resources, links to clinical trials, and resources from NIH, other federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations.
• Calcium: Health Professional Fact Sheet
  Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health
• Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D
  Institute of Medicine Consensus Report, November 30, 2010
• Effectiveness and Safety of Vitamin D in Relation to Bone Health
  Agency for Health Research and Quality Evidence Report, August 2007
• Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch of the NICHD
  The ENGB provides the NICHD with a focus for research and research training in nutritional science, childhood antecedents of adult disease, developmental endocrinology, developmental neuroendocrinology, and physical growth and body composition, including bone health and obesity.
  • Read the ENG Branch's 2009 Report to the NACHHD Council
    
• Magnesium: Health Professional Fact Sheet
  Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health
• Milk Matters—For Health Care Providers
  An NICHD public health education campaign to promote calcium consumption among teens. This campaign offers free publications and materials about the importance of dietary calcium. Some of these items are geared toward parents and children. Other items are directed toward health care professionals. Items are available for download or for order through this website.
• NIH Consensus Development Conference: Lactose Intolerance and Health—Final Panel Statement
  From conference held February 22–24, 2010, Bethesda, Maryland
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) Testing
  The Bone and Extracellular Matrix Branch (BEMB) of the NICHD. Includes a CLIA-certified laboratory for OI testing.
• Vitamin A and Carotenoids: Health Professional Fact Sheet
  Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health
• Vitamin D and Calcium: Systematic Review of Health Outcomes
  Agency for Health Research and Quality Evidence Report, May 2010
• Vitamin D and Health in the 21st Century: An Update
  Proceedings of a conference organized by the Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health, September 2007
• Vitamin D: Health Professional Fact Sheet
  Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health

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