Welcome to the March issue of HSPH Update, an e-letter for friends of the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Boosting Vitamin D: Not Enough or Too Much?Watch live webcast March 29 
The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies Boosting Vitamin D: Not Enough or Too Much? Presented in collaboration with Reuters March 29
1:00-2:00 PM
Watch at www.ForumHSPH.org EXPERT PARTICIPANTS Walter Willett, Chair, Department of Nutrition, and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health JoAnn Manson, Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Member of the IOM Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium; and Principal Investigator, VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL) Patsy Brannon, Member of the IOM Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium, and Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
Bess Dawson-Hughes, Senior Scientist and Director, Bone Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University; Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Past President and Trustee, National Osteoporosis Foundation MODERATOR Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor, Reuters Health Submit questions for the expert participants before or during the live webcast to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu.
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A new study from HSPH and Brigham and Women's Hospital found no evidence that higher levels of mercury exposure were associated with higher risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, or total cardiovascular disease in two separate studies of U.S. adults. 
