Cost-Effectiveness of Vitamin D Supplementation in Pregnant Woman and Young Children in Preventing Rickets: A Modeling Study.

Literature on the cost of management of rickets and cost-effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation in preventing rickets is lacking. This study considered the cost-effectiveness of providing free vitamin D supplementation to pregnant women and children <4 years of age with varying degrees of skin pigmentation to prevent rickets in children. Estimates for the prevalence of rickets were calculated using all cases of rickets diagnosed in Central Manchester, UK and census data from the region.

Non-typhoidal salmonellosis presenting as acute calculus cholecystitis.

Non-typhoidal are Gram-negative bacilli, which typically cause a clinical picture of gastroenteritis and, less commonly, patients may become a chronic carrier of the pathogen within their gallbladder. We describe a rare clinical presentation of a non-typhoidal infection as acute calculus cholecystitis in an adult patient. subsp.