Low vitamin D levels can cause muscle weakness, cramps and bone pain. You'll generally feel muscle weakness in your upper ...
Happily, not much sun exposure is required for many people to meet their vitamin D needs. Ten minutes of sun exposure at a UV ...
The condition affects children and infants, causes bone deformities and sometimes seizures, and is most often caused by a ...
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 than a New Zealand paediatric clinic in 2025. Yet the painful bone growth ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...