No OTC High Dose Vit D3 Supplements, Say German Doctors After Infant Overdose Case
Executive Summary
The Drug Commission of the German Medical Association warns against the unsupervised use of high-dose vitamin D3 supplements after the overdose of a seven-month-old German infant.
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