WASHINGTON - Too little milk, sunshine and exercise: It's an anti-bone trifecta. And for some kids, shockingly, it's leading to rickets, the soft-bone scourge of the 19th century. But cases of ...

During childhood and adolescence, rapid bone growth and remodelling make bone health crucial. Adequate nutrition, vitamin D and calcium, sunlight exposure, physical activity, and timely detection of ...

ATLANTA — Childhood rickets--a bone-softening disease that had become so rare the government stopped keeping statistics on it--is making a comeback, in part because some youngsters are not getting ...

RICKETS disease is rising in Britain, doctors say, with two reasons being children spending more time playing indoors and using sunscreen. Rickets results from a severe deficiency of vitamin D, which ...