Swollen ankles - A woman is after some advice on how to get rid of swollen ankles. She tends to suffer from the problem during hot weather, but since our reader broke...

Type ii diabetes - It's the diet, stupid - Type II diabetes has become the lifestyle disease of modern times. The two main risk factors according to doctors are being seriously overweight, as...

Swollen ankles: - Then there was the reader whose 60-year-old husband is in a great deal of pain from swollen ankles. What could be done for him? Check for hypothyroi...

Salt restriction may aggravate type ii diabetes - A small study of patients with hypertension has suggested that salt restriction may result in insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance or a wors...

Like father, like sons and daughters in type-ii diabetes - Re your article ‘Diabetes: the real culprit’ (WDDTY vol 13 no 12), I am a 63-year-old type-II diabetic, diagnosed at the age of 50. I am also a bioche...

Type ii diabetes: - What remedies can tackle type II diabetes One reader was aware of an Indian homoeopathic remedy but couldn t recall the name One homoeopath sugge...

New drugs - New profits for old product - Most new drugs are simply old drugs with a bit of window dressing to justify double the price tag. Yet, the dangers multiply from these novel twists a...

Diabetes Drug: New health warning over the most-prescribed oral medication - There’s something very wrong about the world’s most heavily prescribed type II diabetes drugs.