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Rickets Defined
A childhood disease in which bones lack calcium and are deformed as a result of vitamin D deficiency (vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium)
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Advocates Seek Vitamin D Boost
Published July 4, 2008, 3:52 am, Washington Post
Flurry of recent research indicating vitamin's benefits reignites debate over federal guidelines.
WP: Vitamin D studies ignite debate
Published July 3, 2008, 10:51 pm, MSNBC
A flurry of recent research indicating that Vitamin D may have a dizzying array of health benefits has reignited an intense debate over whether federal guidelines for the "sunshine vitamin" are outdated.
Don't run from the sun's Vitamin D benefits, experts say
Published July 3, 2008, 6:37 pm, Denton Record-Chronicle
Here's a worry to cloud your carefree Fourth of July weekend fun: Is that sunblock you're slathering on to protect you from skin cancer actually making you prone to other diseases from a shortage of Vitamin D?
Antrim couple gives Sophia a home
Published July 2, 2008, 1:16 pm, Public Opinion
Curtis Myers and his wife, Karen Sellers-Myers never thought they would become the adoptive parents of a child from a foreign country. The couple has children of their own. Curtis has a son who is 18. Karen has two granddaughters.
The changing nature of illness
Published July 2, 2008, 3:00 am, BBC News
The health problems confronting the NHS are very different now from those in 1948.
Vitamin D-ficiency
Published June 30, 2008, 5:13 am, The Salinas Californian
GIVING YOUR CHILDREN all they need to grow big and strong may not be as simple as a gummy vitamin and three square meals. They still may be susceptible to an epidemic that's starting to gain the notice of pediatricians and bone doctors across the country: vitamin D deficiency.
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Thu Jun 12
- Shock as vegan diet girl, 12, diagnosed with rickets - The Daily Record: "There are concerns that the child's parents put their own beliefs before the girl's welfare." This is absolutely sick.
Mon Jun 2
- What is Rickets?: Rickets, a disease that affects the developing skeletal system of children and other young animals, is the result of the body's inability to absorb calcium and phosphate.
- Rickets Introduction - Health encyclopaedia - NHS Direct: Rickets is a disorder that affects children, causing poor development of the bones in the skeleton.
Tue Apr 29
- Cell Defenses and the Sunshine Vitamin: Scientific American: Outstandingly interesting article on vitamin D
Sun Apr 27
- Historical overview of rickets, osteomalacia, and ...[Rev Rhum Engl Ed. 1995] - PubMed Result: looks relevant but no abstract
- SOLAR ultraviolet radiation and vitamin D: a histo...[Am J Public Health. 2007] - PubMed Result: interesting historical overview of rickets, uv light and vitamin D in USA
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Sat Apr 5
- Pediatric Emergency Care - Abstract: Volume 22(11) November 2006 p 728-731 An Infant With Tachypnea.: modern day case where lack of vitamin D resulted in infant cardiac myopathy
- [Brief history of rickets and of the discovery of ...[Acta Reumatol Port. 2007 Jul-Sep] - PubMed Result: rickets vitamin D history
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