The condition affects children and infants, causes bone deformities and sometimes seizures, and is most often caused by a ...

Ben Wheeler, professor at the University of Otago's Department of Women and Children's Health, said last time there was a significant rise in rickets in Aotearoa - about a decade ago - there were ...

Happily, not much sun exposure is required for many people to meet their vitamin D needs. Ten minutes of sun exposure at a UV ...

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 ...

India is facing a silent epidemic of Vitamin D Deficiency - 1 in every 5 Indians being Vitamin D deficient. The deficiency is ...

Professor Ben Wheeler says rickets should be a quirk of a bygone era: a disease belonging in a Charles Dickens novel more than a New Zealand paediatric clinic in 2025. Yet the painful bone growth ...

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

Jan. 31, 2024 — Rickets ran rife in children following the Industrial Revolution, but new research has found factory work and polluted cities aren't entirely to blame for the period's vitamin D ...