An 8 1/2-year-old girl presented with rickets. This had developed despite a normal diet and in the absence of symptoms, signs, or laboratory evidence of malabsorption, hepatic or renal disease. The rickets healed with physiological doses of 1-alpha-hydroxy-cholecalciferol. It is suggested that this case provides evidence for genetic and metabolic heterogeneity in vitamin D-dependent rickets.

the purpose of this study was to determine the seasonal changes of vital signs (body temperature, pulse rate and blood pressure) in relation to the working thermal conditions. in this study a total number of 202 permanent workers of bakeries were studied during summer and winter. the results showed the body temperature and pulse rate raised more in summer than in winter in all workers except wh...