Diabetes

Diabetes: Try green tea instead

If you suffer from diabetes, drink plenty of green tea every day. It’s just as effective – and far safer – than the world’s leading anti-diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), which also increases th... more>

Avandia: Major danger is in the first year, says new study

Avandia (rosiglitazone), the world’s most frequently prescribed drug for type II diabetes, is every bit as dangerous as everyone says, a new study has confirmed. more>

Diabetes: A B1 deficiency may make it a killer

Diabetes can be a killer, causing heart and vascular problems – and now scientists think they know why. Diabetics are likely to be deficient in thiamine (vitamin B1), and it is this that makes diabet... more>

Avandia: It stays on the market despite new evidence of heart risk

Better safe than sorry is clearly not the motto of American’s drug ‘watchdog’, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), after it allowed the anti-diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) to stay on the ma... more>

Avandia: So. . . how exactly did it get approved in the first place?

The sudden safety alert from America’s drugs regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about the diabetes drug Avandia leaves two vital questions unanswered. more>

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. more>

Diabetes: The drugs don’t work, but diet does

There seems to be a symbiotic relationship between the more needy patient and the doctor that’s based on the fine, longstanding principles of the quick fix or magic bullet. more>

TIAs: A sweet connection

People who have transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs) have a higher risk of glucose intolerance afterwards. more>

It could lead to alzheimer’s

It’s been found that diabetics are 65 per cent more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. Having diabetes is also associated with loss of memory, mental functioning, speech and visuospatial skills. more>

The real culprits

Says Allen Spiegel, who heads the US National Diabetes Institute, 'People cringe at the word epidemic, but by all criteria, we are witnessing an epidemic of diabetes.' more>

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