Rickets makes a surprise comeback in Cleveland

The disease often starts with pain in the legs, arms and spine. But babies with rickets can't tell anyone about the pain, so it's usually a seizure, a broken bone or the characteristic bowed legs that finally trigger a diagnosis.

Rickets -- a childhood disease caused by vitamin D deficiency and usually associated with the sooty skies of the industrial age -- is making a comeback.

And the reasons are surprising.

Vitamins 'may shorten your life'

BBC News

Wed Apr 16

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