This article is authored by Dr Ambrish Mithal, endocrinologist and chairman and head of endocrinology and diabetes, Max ...

If you don't get enough calcium, you put yourself at risk for medical conditions, including osteoporosis, rickets, or osteomalacia. Your body needs calcium to build bone and prevent or delay bone loss ...

The major therapeutic uses of vitamin D include treatment of nutritional or metabolic rickets; osteomalacia, particularly in the setting of chronic renal failure; hypoparathyroidism; and osteoporosis.

Bone health is important as we grow older. The health of our bones and joints is important so that we can continue to move ...

Vitamin D2 aids calcium absorption, strengthens bones, and supports immunity. Found in plants, it's used to treat vitamin D ...

FROM supporting our immune system to keeping our bones strong, vitamins and minerals are vital for keeping us healthy. So ...

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 ...

The condition affects children and infants, causes bone deformities and sometimes seizures, and is most often caused by a deficiency of vitamin D or calcium.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...