Ben Wheeler, professor at the University of Otago's Department of Women and Children's Health, said last time there was a ...

Jassey, DOMedically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Rickets is a medical condition that causes bones to become weak and soft. There are two types of rickets: one caused by a nutritional ...

Professor Ben Wheeler says rickets should be a quirk of a bygone era: a disease belonging in a Charles Dickens novel more ...

Rickets softens the bones and can cause deformities such as bow legs or chest and pelvis abnormalities, which may require corrective surgery. The condition was widespread in Victorian times when ...

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 ...

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

This helps to prevent rickets, a disease which progressively weakens bone structures, and the lung disease tuberculosis, which can be fatal. Professor Jonathan Rees, of the University of Edinburgh ...

Rickets, a disease often thought of as being a thing of the past, has seen an alarming resurgence across the country. The condition causes deformed bone growth and in the worst cases, seizures ...