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- About Rickets - Offers a description of the malady that includes information on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options.
- eMedicine - Rickets - Laurence Finberg, MD provides a description of the condition's pathophysiology, frequency, lab and imaging studies.
- Osteomalacia/Rickets Clinical Resources - Annotated links to resources provided by the Rural Nurse Organization Digital Library.
- Rickets - University of Maryland Medical Center article that describes the condition. Find a discussion of causes, incidence, and risk factors.
- Rickets - Find a description of the disorder, its alternate names, the causes, incidence and risk factors.
- Rickets - A description of the diagnosis and treatment of an adopted Russian child with nutritional rickets at the Alfred I. duPont Institute.
- Vitamin D Processing and Familial Rickets - Offers a comparison between Vitamin D sensitive and resistant forms of the bone disease. Includes a general overview of bone growth and development.
- Rickets - Mayo Clinic answers how this vitamin D deficiency effects children's bones, who is at risk, non-dietary causes, symptoms, and diagnosis. (January 12, 2005)
- Rickets Is Preventable - Dr. Barbara Struempler, a nutritionist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System describes how the condition can be avoided. (April 10, 2001)
- Studies of A Gene for A Rare Form of Rickets Shed Light on Vitamin D Deficiencies - Feature article reports on advances in genetic research by UCSF scientists. (May 6, 1999)
- Cornell Science News: Bangladesh Rickets Project - Reports that scientists travel to the Chakaria area to learn why the disease is so prevalent in such a sunny area. (October 6, 1997)
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