The prevalence of vitamin D (vitD) deficiency presenting as rickets is increasing worldwide. Insufficient sun exposure, vitD administration, and/or calcium intake are the main causes. However, vitD ...

Pregnant or breastfeeding women have been urged to boost their vitamin D intake amid warnings that cases of rickets in children are increasing. Rickets is a bone disease mainly caused by a lack of the ...

With one in five Brits now lacking this essential vitamin - could your kids be at risk of rickets? RICKETS is a condition normally associated with the Victorian era. But cases of rickets, gout, ...

A diagnosis of rickets should be considered in infants and young children who present with failure to thrive, weakness or developmental delay that primarily involves gross motor skills. Although ...

As a couple call for an inquiry into the failure to diagnose their son’s rickets, which they say led to his death, Channel 4 News examines whether there is enough awareness of its symptoms. Once a ...

The Tories have been accused of having a “Dickensian attitude” to healthcare after data revealed there have been 30,000 cases of rickets and scurvy since 2019. Damning research shows there were 28,379 ...

Rickets and classic metaphyseal lesions (CMLs) exhibit distinct radiographic signs, and radiologists can reliably differentiate these two entities. According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology ...

Q: Which specialist should I see to treat rickets? A: You should see a General Physician, Paediatrician or an Orthopaedic Surgeon if surgery is required to correct any deformities. A: Rickets and ...

A six-year-old boy with a love of the outdoors has been diagnosed with rickets after his mother smothered him in sunscreen every time he went out to play. By Hayley Dixon 13 May 2013 • 6:56am Suzi ...

The number of children suffering from rickets – once associated with Victorian poverty – is on the rise, with a fourfold increase in sufferers in the last ten years. New figures from the NHS show ...

We prospectively measured urinary PGE 2 /Cr in 24-h urine collections in seven male and nine female children with HPR and 16 age and sex matched controls. Fifteen of the patients with HPR had a family ...

Thirty-five-ton dinosaurs, that languidly lived and loved in the slimy lagoons of the Mesozoic Age, some 135,000,000 years ago, probably disappeared off the earth because their supply of ultra-violet ...