Article: Vitamins.com Secures $22.5 Million in Funding; Funds Will Be Deployed to Expand Operations and Extend Brand Awareness.

Article: InTouch Health Secures $6.7 Million Series B Funding Led by ...
Business Wire;  March 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... B financing. The round was led by Acacia Venture Partners, a San Francisco based venture ... David Heer, managing director for Acacia Venture Partners, has joined InTouch Health ... very pleased with the selection of Acacia Venture Partners as the lead for our Series ...

Article: Acacia spreads wealth. (Acacia Venture Capital in ...
African Business;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... warm welcome to the newly launched Acacia Venture Fund which targets companies precisely ... institutions have hailed the launching of the Acacia Venture Capital Fund, which will provide venture ... rarity in this country," he says. The Acacia Venture Capital, a pioneering locally ...

Article: HealthCentral.com Closes Its Acquisition of Vitamins.com.
PR Newswire;  June 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... the HealthCentral.com and Vitamins.com consumer health information ... acquisition Robert Haft, President of Vitamins.com, and C. Sage Givens, Managing Partner of Acacia Venture Partners, an investor in Vitamins.com, were appointed to HealthCentral ...

Article: Vitamin D: a rapid review.(Pharmacology Review)(Reprint)
Dermatology Nursing;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Sales and interest in vitamin D is surging because there may be a strong ... chronic diseases and higher levels of vitamin D (Khazai, Judd, & Tangpricha, 2008). Minimally, the impact of vitamin D on calcium absorption and improving ...

Encyclopedia entry: vitamin
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... necessarily function as a vitamin for another species. The vitamins differ in structure ... longer considered to be vitamins. Vitamin A Vitamin A (retinol ... eight water-soluble vitamins. Thiamine Thiamine (vitamin B 1 or antiberiberi ...

Article: Vitamin D Deficiency
Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence;      700+ words ... ... formula contain high levels of vitamin D, human breast milk is rather low in the vitamin. (The term fortified means that vitamins are added to the food by the manufacturer ... Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of vitamin D for both children and adults ...

Article: Vitamin B-12 deficiency is very prevalent in lactating ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... the association between maternal vitamin B-12 deficiency and vitamin B-12 status of breast-fed infants ... simultaneously in the assay for vitamin B-12 and malabsorption and deficiency of both vitamins have been reported in several studies ...