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I must comment on your otherwise excellent and enjoyable article on vitamin B12 in the April issue of Canadian Family Physician which repeats the fallacy that the only treatment for pernicious anaemia is lifelong vitamin B12 injection. In fact, there is excellent high quality evidence that even in pernicious anaemia, sufficient Vitamin B12 is absorbed orally when a large enough dose is given. (Absorption occurs by diffusi...
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