Does your child have rickets? Find out what you need to know about rickets and discover its possible causes, symptoms, treatment, and preventive measures.

Every child can be given all the vitamin D it needs in one big dose at the beginning of each winter, and rickets can be conquered once & for all. That was the proposition Dr. Henry John ...

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 ...

Rickets is a condition in children with weak bones due to vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate deficiency. Prevent by sunlight exposure, balanced diet, an ...

Please try again later. Rickets, a “disease of poverty” infamously rife in Victorian-era slums, is over 700 per cent more prevalent in Scotland than in England, according to new figures.

A lack of sunlight may have caused rickets in people from north-east England during the Industrial Revolution, scientists say. Researchers studied the teeth of 25 people from a Quaker burial site ...

Outrage from medics at the return of Rickets as cases of the ‘Victorian’ disease rocket by 25% in Scotland with critics calling it a ‘symptom of state failure’ ...

SO much has been heard in recent times of rickets as a disease due to a deficiency of the fat-soluble vitamin A which promotes growth, that it is a good corrective to examine again the position of ...

Scans of the surprisingly well-preserved body revealed knobbly extensions on the rib joints typical of rickets, caused by lack of vitamin D, as well as thick layers of fat – which probably ...

Children with prominent, protruding foreheads and heavy brow ridges (otherwise known as frontal bossing) may be suffering from a serious illness first identified in 1645. Rickets is a condition ...