Atherosclerosis: scurvy in disguise - For more than 50 years, medicine has claimed that a diet high in cholesterol and fat is responsible for coronary artery disease. However, growing evid...

Epilepsy: Half of all victims are deficient in vitamin D - Almost every week a new piece of research finds out something else about the importance of vitamin D to our health. Now researchers have discovered t...

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Pre-eclampsia: Scientists discover what it really is - Scientists are beginning to suspect that pre-eclampsia – which affects 8 per cent of all pregnant women – is not a cardiovascular problem at all. Ins...

Hardening of the Arteries: Double drug therapy is more dangerous - Doctors regularly prescribe aspirin with an anti-coagulant such as warfarin in order to control hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), where pla...

Diabetes: regulating your blood sugar naturally - Diabetes mellitus is an old and complex disease. It can strike anyone in any family at any time, though it is most common among affluent Westerners. T...

Diseases of the heart - Heart disease remains the biggest killer in the West. The immediate cause of death is a ‘sudden’ heart attack but this is the end-point of the slow pr...

Diabetics go undetected with new guidelines - Recently introduced criteria for diagnosing diabetes may not be robust enough, according to a two new studies. ...