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...

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...

HRT: It’s every bit as dangerous as we’ve been told, especially if you’re older - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is every bit as dangerous as studies from a few years back suggested, a new study has just confirmed. But it’s the...

Heart Attack: Patients given useless drug - Patients who are rushed into intensive care after a sudden heart attack are being given a useless drug.

Heart Attack: Traffic pollution increases the risk - Even a short exposure to traffic fumes can increase your chances of heart disease, including heart attack. People who exercise in areas where there is...

Avandia: New study confirms it’s a high-risk drug - Avandia, the best-selling diabetes drug, has had the final nail driven into its coffin. It’s just as dangerous as everyone feared, a new study has co...

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...

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-diabe...