Pediatric cases of scurvy – a disease caused by a serious vitamin C deficiency, have risen alarmingly in the United States in just five years, according to a recent study. The review, published ...

Early recognition of symptoms, prompt diagnosis and treatment, and nursing care are essential in decreasing the morbidity and improving the quality of life of the patient with this disease.

30,714 cases of scurvy were recorded ... Chronic disease is evident in the emaciated patients.

In a survey of admissions to the inpatient dermatology service of a New York municipal hospital, [36] 46% of the admitted patients were street-living or shelter-based homeless and almost one half ...

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1 It is known in scurvy and hypophosphatasemia and after ... disturbed (as in achondroplasia or cretinism). 2 We observed a patient suffering from both pernicious anemia and Paget's disease.

This ability to prevent scurvy was later demonstrated in a clinical ... And so, it seems, may those of their patients. Tröhler, U. in To improve the evidence of medicine: The 18th century British ...

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More than 100 years ago, people who suffered from debilitating diseases such as scurvy and rickets were miraculously cured ... The researchers found that the cancer rates in patients who took the ...