Another class of drugs that has been linked with the group of Victorian diseases - including scurvy, shingles and even rickets - are sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2 inhibitors ...

A pharmacist has issued a stark warning that everyday medications could be fuelling a resurgence in diseases reminiscent of the Victorian era, such as scurvy, shingles and rickets. Millions of ...

Families placed in hotels in England are being forced to ... “We have children with rickets. Everybody thinks it is an old Victorian disease, but it’s coming back." She added: “Nutrition ...

with an increase in deficiency diseases such as rickets in the UK. But industrialization in France came about in a slightly different way to England: later and less abruptly, against a context of ...