Friday, September 3, 2010

“Dead” Disease Partly Result of Techno-Age

October 11, 2008 by Ethan Kendrick  
Filed under Health

After becoming so rare that the government stopped keeping statistics on it in the 1930′s, health departments from Atlanta to Oakland are seeing an alarming resurgence of rickets. Rickets is a bone softening disease often associated with bow-leggedness. Its cause is vitamin D deficiency, a problem that was nearly eradicated with the introduction of the [...]