But the childhood disease of rickets is on the rise again, nutritionists have warned. They say it is because a generation of inactive children are not getting enough sunlight and not consuming ...

The condition affects children and infants, causes bone deformities and sometimes seizures, and is most often caused by a deficiency of vitamin D or calcium.

Rickets is a health condition that develops in children who do not get enough vitamin D or may have developed as an inheritable condition. The symptoms vary but can include muscle pain, cramps ...

There were 60 cases in three years in the last surge. This time, there have been 20 cases in just four months.

Professor Ben Wheeler says rickets should be a quirk of a bygone era: a disease belonging in a Charles Dickens novel more ...

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This helps to prevent rickets, a disease which progressively weakens bone structures, and the lung disease tuberculosis, which can be fatal. Professor Jonathan Rees, of the University of Edinburgh ...

A. Palm, first directed the attention of the scientific world to the curative effect of sunlight on rickets. L. J. Harris 1, when dealing with the frequency of the occurrence of rickets in ...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cuba-Rushford’s Finn Ricketts scored 19 points to lead a road win over Ellicottville on Saturday. The Rebels (12-5) trailed 31-23 at halftime, but charged into the lead with a 20-point ...

Vitamins B, C and D, for instance, were all discovered as a result of research on diseases (beriberi, scurvy and rickets, respectively) that plagued various groups of people from the 1700s through ...

A new survey, which Otago's New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance Unit has been running since September, has already turned up 20 cases. Dunedin Hospital paediatric endocrinologist Ben Wheeler worries ...

Rickets, a disease often thought of as being a thing of the past, has seen an alarming resurgence across the country. The condition causes deformed bone growth and in the worst cases, seizures ...