There's been an alarming resurgence of cases of rickets across the country. The condition causes deformed bone growth and in the worst cases, seizures - leading to death. Ben Wheeler is a professor at ...

A. Palm, first directed the attention of the scientific world to the curative effect of sunlight on rickets. L. J. Harris 1, when dealing with the frequency of the occurrence of rickets in ...

A new survey, which Otago's New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance Unit has been running since September, has already turned up 20 cases. Dunedin Hospital paediatric endocrinologist Ben Wheeler worries ...

The painful bone disorder rickets appears to be making a resurgence among infants and children in New Zealand, and there are worries cases are going unreported. Professor Ben Wheeler says rickets ...

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However, dyspnea usually relates to health problems. Sometimes, it is just a case of inactivity, and exercise can improve symptoms. However, dyspnea can be a sign of a serious health issue.

The treatment generally starts at a low dose to avoid gastrointestinal side effects and progressively increases until the improvement of symptoms and serum phosphorus (5). Conventional treatment leads ...

Pneumonia symptoms can vary based on the cause and severity of the lung infection. For some, it might feel similar to the flu or be barely noticeable. For others, pneumonia can cause severe ...

While we know the hallmark symptoms of COVID ― like coughing, fatigue, for example ― there are some COVID-19 symptoms that aren’t normal and shouldn’t be treated as such. “What’s really important is ...