Schoolboy campaigner backs vitamin D summit

November 4, 2009

Schoolboy campaigner backs vitamin D summit
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Ryan McLaughlin with his mum Kirsten who is suffering from MS

Melanie Reid
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A major international summit on the links between multiple sclerosis and vitamin D deficiency, supported by the Scottish government, is to take place in Scotland early next year thanks to the efforts of a campaigning schoolboy.

Ryan McLaughlin, 14, whose mother suffers from the disease, said yesterday he was delighted that that Ministers were backing an opportunity to explore the growing evidence that lack of the vitamin could be implicated in the high incidence of the disease.

The summit will bring together government health advisers as well as researchers from Britain and countries such as Canada, where much work has been done on MS, and where supplementation of vitamin D is officially advocated in the general population