We often think of rickets and worm infections as illnesses from our grandparents’ time, but they’re making a comeback in ...

The Victorian-era disease rickets has returned to England, the country’s Chief Medical Officer has said, and should be fought off through a universal handout of vitamin supplements to all ...

THE Victorian childhood condition rickets is making a comeback because expectant mothers and their babies aren't getting enough Vitamin D through food or sunlight. Twenty-three children recently ...

They stay at home on computer games." The consequent lack of vitamin D (which is produced in skin that's exposed to moderately strong sunlight) could be the chief cause for the return of rickets in ...

A number of diseases can cause pathologic bowing, with two of the more common ones being rickets and Blount’s disease. Rickets results from a dietary deficiency of vitamin D, calcium and phosphorus.

Letter Published: 01 April 1933 Experimental Rickets as a Phosphorus Deficiency Disease H. D. KAY & B. L. GUYATT Nature 131, 468–469 (1933) Cite this article ...