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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

Babies up to the age of 1 year need 8.5 to 10 micrograms of vitamin D a day. The NHS adds: "From about late March/early April to the end of September, the majority of people should be able to make all ...

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 ...