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.

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

There's been an alarming resurgence of cases of rickets across the country. The condition causes deformed bone growth and in the worst cases, seizures - leading to death. Ben Wheeler is a professor at ...

For years, doctors thought of rickets as a disease of the past. New research shows it should still be considered a problem and prevention should For years, doctors thought of rickets as a disease ...

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 ...

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 ...

Considering taking supplements to treat rickets? Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of rickets. Follow the links to read common uses, side effects ...

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 ...