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Archive Home > 2012 > June > 13 > Women advised against taking calcium, vitamin D to prevent fractures

Women advised against taking calcium, vitamin D to prevent fractures

By Gina Kolata / The Bulletin
June 13, 2012

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an influential group that recently recommended against routine PSA tests to detect prostate cancer, issued a draft statement Tuesday recommending that healthy postmenopausal women should not take low doses of calcium or vitamin D supplements to prevent....

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